Breaking News and A Chance For You to Help Planned Parenthood
Today the House will vote on the FY2010 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. This is the largest of the 13 annual measures that fund the government.
Labor-H funds a whole host of programs and agencies -- everything from the Maternal Child Health Block Grant to the State Children's Health Insurance Program to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Tossed in there is funding for Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning programs -- usually referred to as Title X, its place in the Public Health Service Act. Title X provides -- with preference for low-income individuals -- family planning and related preventive health services. Every year it receives about $280 million; though the proposed funding in 2010 is about $317 million. (And if that seems like a lot of money, it isn't. If Title X had kept pace with inflation since 1980, it'd be receiving about $725 million.)
Today on the House floor Reps. Pence (R-IN), Cao (R-LA), Lamborn (R-CO), Terry (R-NE), Pitts (R-PA), Smith (R-NJ), and Latta (R-OH) will be offering an amendment that would prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving any Title X funds. About 15% of ALL the family planning clinics in the US are run by Planned Parenthood; some 4 million women a year access services at these clinics. And here I feel compelled to point out that Title X does not cover abortion services (see Section 1008 for the prohibition).
If you think women, especially poor women, should have access to Title X services, including at Planned Parenthood, please call your representative and tell them to vote against the Pence amendment to H.R. 3293.
Photo credit: Sarah Consolacion on Flickr. Creative Commons License.
Huh, Mom-ocrats supporting planned parenthood, the outfit that supports and promotes abortion.
I thought Mom's were suppose to love children, not kill them.
Posted by: Joe | July 25, 2009 at 07:09 AM