Joan McCarter reports on the latest in the War on Women. You know? I’m kind of ignoring what’s going on in the House right now because those lunatics are never going to succeed in getting the Senate to agree to 99.9% of the bullshit they’re doing on this Continuing Resolution. But when you vote nearly unanimously to eliminate health benefits for women I get very pissed off.
If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider [Planned Parenthood] will lose funding from the federal government, all of which goes to family planning and reproductive services under Title X, and none of which goes to funding abortions.
It will also eliminate the entire Title X program, which was founded in 1970 and is the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and preventive health services, particularly to low-income families, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs. Preventative health services include breast and cervical cancer screenings, HIV prevention education, pregnancy diagnosis and counseling.
In fiscal year 2010, Congress appropriated approximately $317 million for family planning activities supported under Title X, 90 percent of which was used for clinical family planning services, according to the OPA. In 2008, 4,500 community-based clinics (including health departments, university health centers, faith-based organizations, public and private nonprofit agencies, and tribal organizations) received grants from Title X that went to approximately 5 million people, the OPA said. In roughly 75 percent of U.S. counties, at least one clinic receives Title X funds.
You know who signed Title X into law? Richard Milhous Nixon, that’s who. It shouldn’t have to be said, but someone said it anyway:
More important than these numbers are the demographics of those who benefit from this funding. Planned Parenthood provides disproportionate amounts of sexual health care for those who are poor, young and belong to minority groups. For college students, Planned Parenthood is a resource that empowers those who would otherwise not be able to afford oral contraceptives and other sexual health care.
Moreover, the funding provided for Title X provides access to means of contraception other than abortion, which helps to keep women away from the emotional distress and high costs associated with these procedures.
Obviously abortion is not a contraceptive, but you get the point.
But it is birth control.
Again, they do not give a fuck about abortion. THEY HATE WOMEN!
Looks like I’ll be headed to the school clinic for condoms now. PP has also saved a few girl friends that I know, and they’ve been there for me and my partner(s) with Plan B from time to time. The ACLU and PP are practically the only places I’d consider donating money to anymore.
Why would you be headed to the school clinics? It’s not going to go into law. It has to go through the senate which is highly unlikely and even if that happened there is no way Obama would sign it into law…
I’ve been really hard on Katrina vanden Heuvel in the past but this is one area where she’s put her money where her mouth is. IIRC, according to OpenSecrets, she’s donated somewhere between $75,000 & $100,000 to Planned Parenthood in the past ten years.
The GOP is playing with fire here. As long as hippies are the only people that both care and vote, then nothing will stop this. But at some point the underclass is going to start paying attention and start voting again. I’m not sure this on its own would do it, but there will be a tipping point.
It’s a typical Republican response. Do what increases the problem so you still have an issue. It looks like the bill is tailored specifically to increase the number of abortions.
BTW, your Wisconsin post pulled one of McKenna’s “I stand with Governor Walker” ads. Like I asked before, do you get paid by clicks or views for these ads, because we could click away if necessary.
Depends on the ad.
Some ads are paid by views, so you need not click on them. Others only pay by clicks. However, the rate I get paid per click is based on the percentage of people who click who then go on to do was is desired (sign a petition, rent a car, peruse a site). So, madly clicking on ads can reduce the rate I’m paid per click and make the site less attractive to advertisers, too.
I recommend visiting the ads that actually interest you and not trying to pad my pay, because the Google is too smart for that.
Just get a little PO’d seeing all the rightwing garbage that your stories attract. I’m satisfied to view it an think negative thoughts.
It also looks at you and your surfing habits.
Last night I looked up a recipe for oven-baked bbq chicken and suddenly all my ads were food and restaurant related. In this post I am getting ads for my local hospital and mammogram testing because it relates to women’s health.
It’s a powerful algorithm.
So, with Powell’s books, does it take placing an order, or just looking? Does looking pay one thing, and placing an order more?
Powell’s is just a percentage of the sale. It’s something like 6%. I forget exactly.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s an ulterior motive to denying family planning to poor people. Maybe the idea is that the poor must keep cranking out children so they can never get out of poverty, because what good is it to be rich if you don’t have huddled, filthy masses of poor people to look down on?
not just look down on, a large work force that has no rights and has difficulty organizing. of course they have that with undocumented workers, but a pliant work force of usa citizens is their dream. destroying public education is part of it. what they’d really like, however, is the return of chattal slavery
As I have said repeatedly, and to the staffs of these idiot politicians, anti-abortion laws like this will ultimately cost the taxpayers MORE money.
Almost every state has safe haven laws, giving women up to two months to drop off an unwanted baby with the cops, hospital, emt, etc. In most states she is under no obligation to identify herself, and under no obligation to provide any medical information about the baby. The state, and therefore the taxpayer, pays to raise the kid and that’s expensive. Clothing. Food. Education. Ongoing searches for adoptive or foster families.
But because unwanted children grow up to be unwanted adults, dumped into society when they are 18, what tends to happen next is ALSO expensive: higher rates of mental illness, higher crime and drug addiction rates, higher incarceration rates, healthcare costs, welfare costs.
but as I’ve also consistently pointed out, conservatives don’t have any foresight. They are clinically unable to see anything but their preferred outcome (kind of like with Iraq), and can’t see how this might go wrong.
Yeah, their care and concern seem to end precisely at the moment of birth for some strange and convoluted reason.
The GOP is playing with fire here. As long as hippies are the only people that both care and vote, then nothing will stop this.