Pawlenty budget slashes family planning programs

Hopefully the legislature will cut the so-called “Positive Alternatives” boondoggle. Minnesota Teen Challenge should also be zeroed out in the budget.

If abortions are no longer funded by taxpayers, think how many more democrats there’d be.

Wow. All in the same budget proposal, Pawlenty says we should limit family planning AND cut low income healthcare and social services spending. What’s a great way to insure that more poor people have more children they can’t afford, and in turn, more low income healthcare and human service spending that the State cannot afford? Encourage them to have more kids! Another pro-GOP move by Pawlenty pandering to the far right and furthering his national political aspirations. Have we ever had a more divisive Governor? The notion of bi-partisanship is completely foreign to him.

Interesting, but not surprising perhaps, to learn that Crohn’s disease efects the cognitive skills in liberals ;-)

I guess I’m not surprised that someone would suggest that we should tell the poor NOT to have kids, since, of course, Planned Parenthood was founded by a woman who pushed a eugenics policy that focused on the poor and minorities. Oh, wait–my bad. It’s called family planning and “reporductive health care,” aka abortion. If all Planned Parenthood and those like it can offer poor people is that they don’t have any children, are they really doing anything to help those poor people get back on the right track, leading a productive and successful life? No, of course not. Planned Parenthood hasn’t contributed one thing to advancing the well-being of anyone, other than offering them the ability to not have kids. They shouldn’t act like they are doing anyone any favors. Because they aren’t. (But they are laughing all the way to the bank.)

I suppose a progam like Positive Alternatives does cut into the bottom line of organziations who have been claiming to help people, since, of course, Positive Alternatives has actually been delivering on the promise of helping people.

A few facts for kate t:

Planned Parenthood: 880 clinic locations in the United States, with a total budget of approximately US$1 billion, and provides an array of services to over three million people. In 2007, contraception constituted 36% of total services, STI/STD testing and treatment constituted 31%, cancer testing and screening constituted 17%; other women’s health services, including pregnancy, prenatal, midlife, and infertility were 11%, and approximately 3% of total services involved surgical and medical abortions. [5]

btw Planned Parenthood was the primary source of health care for my mid 20′s daughter for several years when she was working 3 part-time jobs and had no health insurance. They are an incredibly important organization for millions in this country and certainly don’t “laugh all the way to the bank” – the way bankers/financeers have been for the last decade – literally.

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I believe that Family planning programs should get all the funding we can throw at them, not because I’m a far left liberal nor am I an inner city minority with 5 kids from 5 different fathers. It is simply my belief, no, allow me to rephrase, it is simply my direct observation that far to many kids are being brought into this world and right into terrible homes. With so many innocent children being victimized by their uneducated mothers and fathers daily, it is no wonder that the country is in the shape it is in.