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He’s introduced an amendment to the Appropriations Act (HR 1105) that would block Planned Parenthood from receiving funds from the federal Title X Family Planning program, the federal grant program dedicated to providing comprehensive family planning and related health services to individuals. By law, Title X must give priority to people from low income families, the ranks of whom are growing rapidly.
Why, what could a “pro-life” Senator Vitter possibly have against an organization that’s helped to reduce the US abortion rate? According to the Guttmacher Institute, publicly funded family planning servcies prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies each year, pregnancies that would otherwise result in 860,000 unintended births, 810,000 abortions and 270,000 miscarriages. And in fact, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. They are used for prenatal care for pregnant women. But healthy moms and babies don’t fit into the “pro-life” agenda.
Planned Parenthood empowers people to determine the size of their own families, via pregnancy prevention. Title X allows organizations like Planned Parenthood to serve low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women, especially. The program not only provides an amazing bang for it’s buck, it’s simply good public policy in an age when so many Americans are without health insurance, and increasing numbers are without jobs.
Tell your representatives to oppose Vitter’s amendment.
There was also a study released saying that the number of Americans without health insurance is actually much higher than standard estimates, so the number of women needing these services might be even more than expected.
And because I can’t resist… “Provides an amazing bang for it’s buck.” How could Vitter oppose something that does that?
What I want to know is why the media keeps ignoring the outlandish hypocrisy of a ‘family values’ guy who consorts with sex workers. Why does he even get to have an opinion about anything concerning the female body? He should be stamped FAIL and lose his job.
I am always amazed that Sen. Vitter opens his diaper loving maw to speak on these issues, the shamelessness is just…shameful!
David Vitter has no shame, no sense of irony at all. I could laugh if what he was trying to do wasn’t evil.
Did anyone see the full on bishplz face he got from Clinton during her SecState confirmation hearings? She quickly composed herself and answered his question about her husband professionally, but it was an awesome instant reaction.