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Categories: Budget Gimmicks · General Outrage · Policy Riders · Pork Projects
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Our allies at the Family Research Council are pleased that Democrats removed language from the omnibus reversing the Mexico City policy, which prevents U.S. tax dollars from funding overseas groups that perform or promote abortion. Pro-life groups were disappointed, however, by the bill’s increased funding of Planned Parenthood. Here’s how President Tony Perkins put it in his Washington Update today:
The Title X program, which is a prime source of income for abortion organizations, received a $17 million increase — bringing its total funding to just under $300 million. Unlike past years, abstinence education did not receive a similar raise. Instead, abstinence-until-marriage programs are under intense attack. This week in the omnibus, the President’s requirement that 33% of PEPFAR prevention funds go toward the “A” (Abstinence) and “B” (Be Faithful) approach was waived, dealing a severe blow to overseas abstinence efforts. As a result, the U.S. now faces a return to condom-based prevention programs, eroding the progress made in reducing HIV/AIDS rates abroad. Until now, America had been the only major international donor to promote the “A, B” approach in foreign countries.
Where did the money go instead? Perkins speculates that it probably wound up funding an obscure earmark, such as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “Hippie Museum” or Rep. Charlie Rangel’s near-$2 million “Monument to Me.”
Categories: General Outrage
Tagged: abortion, abstinence, clinton, family, planned parenthood, rangel, sex
