GOP Spending Bill Aims To Defund Planned Parenthood, Up Abstinence-Only Funds

[Tx4obama]

Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) released a labor, health and education spending bill on Tuesday that would defund Planned Parenthood and Title X, block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, allow any employer to deny women birth control coverage under the ACA for "moral reasons" and increase spending for abstinence-only education.

Specifically, the bill prevents federal dollars from flowing to Planned Parenthood clinics until the family planning provider can certify that it no longer offers abortions, even though Planned Parenthood only uses federal money for non-abortion services.

The legislation also states that none of its funds can be used to carry out the Title X family planning program or be used to "implement, administer, enforce, or further the provisions" of the Affordable Care Act.

The bill scraps the provision in Obamacare that requires insurance plans to cover birth control and other preventative health services, allowing any issuer or sponsor of a group health insurance plan to refuse to cover any health care service "on the basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions." It also increases restrictions on educating abortion physicians beyond current law and allocates $20 million for "competitive grants to provide abstinence education to adolescents."

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Full article including Planned Parenthood statement here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/house-gop-spending-bill_n_1681019.html

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Now I Know Why The Romans Fed Christians To The Lions

[bluestateguy]

2. Government funding to abstinence only hucksterism

People now get married at almost the age of 30 on average.

And they would say that such people should not have sex until they get married. Even if it is at age 30 or beyond.

And the taxpayers will subsidize that message.

Got it.