Parroting Propaganda on Family Planning
by Julie Hollar
RHRealityCheck.org
Created Apr 6 2009 - 7:00am
Of all the supposed "pork" in the proposed economic stimulus bill, perhaps none got so much media attention as the provision to extend family planning to more low-income women. As the House struggled to pass the legislation, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued a press release (1/23/09) claiming that the plan "includes taxpayer funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry." Two days later, Boehner railed on NBC's Meet the Press (1/25/09), "Spending...over $200 million for contraceptives, how [is] this going to fix an ailing economy?" |MORE
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