Obama’s budget includes family planning funding protested by Republicans during stimulus debate.
By on Feb 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Obama’s budget includes family planning funding protested by Republicans during stimulus debate.
To congressional Republicans, one of the most objectionable parts of an early version of the House’s economic recovery package was funding for family planning services. Conservatives cried that spending “hundreds of millions on contraceptives” wouldn’t stimulate the economy. (Even though it would.) President Obama agreed to drop the provision from the recovery package. However, he has reinserted it into his FY 2010 budget. On p. 127, there is a provision to “[e]xpand availability of family planning services under Medicaid,” which is estimated to save the government $190 million over 10 years. Here are statements from Planned Parenthood and NFPRHA.
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Bush
Business
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Global Warming
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Iraq
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
McCain
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Technology
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
Oops.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pmI’m so glad that this important funding was reinserted into the 2010 budget! The President needs to take money away from “abstinence only” sex education and put it into family planning and programs that teach our youth the truth about sex – not just abstinence only. Let the repugnicans stick that in their self-righteous pipes and smoke it!
February 26th, 2009 at 5:09 pmBristol Palin is the poster child of abstninence programs, much to her mother’s chagrin.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pmYou can’t drag conservatives into the 21st century, so let them eat our dust. I want to see the Democratically controlled Congress aggressively pursue a liberal agenda with no apology.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pmOf course our President allowed the GOP to claim victory by having this funding removed from the stimulus bill, and of course he made sure it was inserted immediately into the first budget!
Our President is so far ahead of these ‘pubs that they have no idea what’s coming. Keep them on the defense. They’ve been offensive enough over the last decade plus.
PEACE
February 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pmKept his promise to put the funding back in for Family Planning in his Budget. That’s change I can believe in!
February 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pmI haven’t heard the Righties screaming about this yet. Are they all at the Cpac meeting drooling over their heros like Joe the Plumber?
February 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pmLike I’ve said a few times, Obama is like a Master Chess Player. Always three to four moves ahead of his opponent. At this rate, by the time he’s done with the GOP, they won’t know they’ve been checkmated until after the game is over.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pmYou sly devil you. I’m glad to see this in his budget. It will not only help our economy by stimulating it, in the future it will save us an immeasurable amount of money.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pmAnyone within earshot of the Colorado legislature get some hearing protection.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pmJim Wolf359 Says:
Like I’ve said a few times, Obama is like a Master Chess Player. Always three to four moves ahead of his opponent. At this rate, by the time he’s done with the GOP, they won’t know they’ve been checkmated until after the game is over
Jim, I, too, have been saying the same thing. I also believe, the more I watch Obama, that he’s already mapped out his checkmate strategy based on each and every possible move the GOP might make.
The GOP is still huddled around a game of checkers over a pickle barrel down at the corner store. President Obama is amused, but not concerned.
PEACE
February 26th, 2009 at 5:28 pmspencers mom says:
The GOP is still huddled around a game of checkers over a pickle barrel down at the corner store.
LOL! That is a great anaolgy spencers mom. I got a great laugh from it. Thanks!
February 26th, 2009 at 5:32 pmanalogy. Geez…I need to proof my typing before I post.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pmOT, but Matthews just slapped down Daryl Issa for calling us “the Democrat party”. It was sweet! And it was also amazing how easily Rep. Issa was able to say it correctly!
PEACE
February 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pmThe repugs are the minority party. We won and the president is doing what he said he would do, our congressmen and women and our senators are doing what we elected them to do. It is time for the troglodytes to take a seat and watch the grown ups.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pmI look forward to a Republican filibuster over this.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pmThe repugniscum arguments against the budget and the tax hikes for the wealthy are simply disgusting.
Someone is moaning because for every $10,000 he earns OVER $250,000 will cost him an additional $300 in taxes.
Don’t you feel sorry for him?
Will that same guy will pay less tuition for his kids’ education and less for his health care?
Someone else is moaning that the tax increase on business will “jump” 6% over the baseline, and that will prevent new hires. What??
February 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pmSo the business man who will pay 6% more will suffer severe hardship? But will that same businessman who doesn’t have health insurance costs when we finally get reform then realize an extreme “bonus” for his company?
OT
February 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pmSpeaking of repugniscum:
Sen. Cornyn is already threatening a filibuster if Reid tries to seat Franken in April.
Repugs are going to have to get over the fact that family planning is essential and they had better accept it.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pmMatthews just slapped down Daryl Issa for calling us “the Democrat party”.
I am glad to hear that but I wonder if Matthews did the same when criminal, Tom Delay, was on his show yesterday. I think Matthews gets the same tingle in his leg from Delay as he says he does from Obama.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:47 pmMarie Says:
Someone else is moaning that the tax increase on business will “jump” 6% over the baseline, and that will prevent new hires. What??
Republicans often try to cover their shucking for the wealthy by talking about small businesses, which is fairly clever. Many small businesses have gross receipts in the low millions, even though the owners may only take home a typical middle-class salary. But there’s a huge difference between someone who takes home a $3M paycheck and someone who owns a shop that grosses $3M a year but who takes home $60K themselves. For one, businesses are taxed on net earnings, which often don’t even exist.
Which begs the question – as R talking points often do – how can they not realize this? They’re supposed to be the pro-capitalism/business party, they must know that they’re talking about apples and oranges every time they throw in “small businesses” to any pool of hypothetical millionaires under discussion. I can only think the answer to this must be that they GOP is pretty much divided into two groups: 1) rich people who are lying, and 2) poor people who are imbeciles.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pmSpencer’s Mom & Jim: I think I agree with you. I have been speculating (to myself) if Obama’s reasons for continuing the Bush-DOJ arguments is, knowing they will loose in court, especially with a Democrat administration, he thinks it best that the courts settle these questions once & for all. If he just tabled the DOJ arguments, they might well return to haunt us all.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:22 pmRepubliCons, brain dead! Why are they always wrong, always!
February 26th, 2009 at 7:52 pmFamily planning or free abortions?
February 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pmTimmeh more stupid talking points or just another astonishingly ignorant post?
February 26th, 2009 at 8:09 pmPoor people are a luxury we just can’t afford, they cost us a lot of money to maintain what with food stamps, housing and health care. So if we can rapidly reduce the number of poor people through contraception and abortion, that’s a net gain for federal and state budgets, and a fast track to economic recovery. Every poor baby prevented is like money in the bank.
Even if the budget bill helps harvest only the low-hanging fruit by reducing live births among blacks and Hispanics, that would be a major boost, since minorities comprise nearly 50 percent of those on Medicaid.
Thank God something is being done about the poor, and I for one implore the democrat party and the Obama administration to include even more funding in the budget bill for better marketing efforts to attract minority women who have not yet considered abortion as a viable lifestyle choice.
Despite the best efforts to date only 1-in-5 pregnancies ends in abortion. We need the marketing money to spur growth in what could be called our frequent-flier segment. Blacks make up only about 13 percent of the population, yet they have 40 percent of the abortions. I still think there’s real upside potential there.
We need to keep Planned Parenthood as the Sam’s Club of abortions for minority communities. Funding is needed to keep the product cheap so the customers can buy in large quantities. What they might lose in profit per procedure can more than be made up for in volume. This funding also helps reduce racial tensions by adhering to time-tested Darwinian principles.
Totally ripped from Scott Ott.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:21 pmObama’s budget includes family planning funding …
thank you.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:23 pmboozer’s post flagged, deletion requested.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pmInhuman content.
Nevar Says:boozer’s post flagged, deletion requested.
Inhuman content.
My GOD. I mean I knew you were STUPID. I knew you were GULLIBLE but in fact you are flat out DELUSIONAL. You have been ASSIMILATED. You are of the TP HIVEMIND. Reality is just a distant memory for you. Do you understand how PATHETIC you are? I get you are too stupid to think for yourself but to spout TP clichés makes you a SUBHUMAN MORON.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:15 pmBoozer,
February 26th, 2009 at 10:46 pmYour support for eugenics is as odious as your response to Nevar. As for your claim that someone who spouts “TP Cliches”, whatever the hell that is, is a subhuman moron, I suggest you look in the mirror for that picture.
Well, of course the Repugs are not in favor of family planning. That’s their only hope of keeping their party numbers up — by having their young followers continue to pop out babies and brainwash those infants from the start.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:15 pmboozer Says:
So then you are so stupid that you plagiarize MY post and just stick TP in there? I guess that is because you KNOW you are too stupid to think for yourself and that is the best you can do? Well you certainly are pathetic. Next time instead of plagiarizing me give me credit for my work. In context of his posts Another Parrot deseved that. Nevar of course didnt. Then again I am sure a moron like you has no possibility of understanding this simple concept
February 26th, 2009 at 11:16 pmHope this serves as an object lesson to some progressives who are so quick to criticize Obama. He is a savvy politician who knows when to keep his powder dry and when to fire it. He has accomplished more in one month than Clinton did in eight years.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:16 pmYeah, Eugene, I noticed that too.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:57 pmNevar Says:
Anyone within earshot of the Colorado legislature get some hearing protection.
Oh, if that guy is ever found at a strip club…it’ll make Larry Craig seem like a honest pure as snow boy scout.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:54 amIt’s nice to see the progressives are ramping up the “family planning” again. They save us from, as Miss Sanger said, all those “non Aryan” people.
Thannk God!
February 27th, 2009 at 2:06 amYa know,if men could get pregnant there would be no discussion on birth control, or abortions!They would have drive-thrus on every corner! Thank You Mr. Obama!!
February 27th, 2009 at 8:24 pmMarie Says:
Repugs are going to have to get over the fact that family planning is essential and they had better accept it.
If their mothers had known about family planning, we’d have a LOT fewer rethugs today. They may be afraid that the breed will die out.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:53 am