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It's Time to De-Fund Planned Parenthood

3129 Wrote: Jul 24, 2009 9:22 AM
Planned parenthood provides a lot of information and assistance with birth control. One of those services is to provide authorization for a woman to obtain an abortion from a physician. Having grown up before Roe v. Wade, abortions will continue to happen whether they are legal or not. The present system is far better than the previous system of back alley butchers using old coat hangers.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. This is the Constitutional duty of each Member of Congress, and a responsibility not to be taken lightly, especially in difficult economic times.

This week, the House of Representatives will consider the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010, the bill that provides funding for the budgets of the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Title X of the HHS budget is the Family Planning program. And while there are...