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The Title X program was put in place in 1970, there are over 4000 clinics primarily in low income neighborhoods that receive funding but their budget has gone down over the years. The provide family planning, contraception and tests for AIDs, cervical cancer, sexually transmitted diseases. Seem like money well spent, unwanted birth are around 50% and girls under 19 account for 30% of all births. This does not make sense.
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House Republicans are trying again this year to eliminate federal funding for
a program that provides birth control, HIV testing and sexually transmitted
disease screenings and treatment to low-income patients across the country.
The House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee released a budget proposal
for Fiscal Year 2016 on Tuesday that zeroes out funding for the Title X family
planning program, the only federal grant program that provides contraceptive and
other preventive health services to poor and uninsured individuals who would
otherwise lack access to that kind of care. The program subsidizes 4,100 health
clinics nationwide and provides no- or low-cost family planning services to
individuals who earn less than about $25,000 a year. The largest demographic the
program serves is reproductive-aged women between 20 and 29 years old.
The core GOP base, still angry about the super-majority period of the Obama administration and everything passed during it, wants to see the Republicans force through pieces of their agenda. The social conservative wing of the part dislikes planned parenthood. The fiscal conservative wing doesn't have a consistent opinion on planned parenthood but very much wants to see the Republicans have a spine on using budget bills and debt limits to force spending cuts, and so is supportive of the tactics if not the goal, because if they are successfully implemented they can be used again later on fiscal conservative priorities.
Basically this is a rare chance for GOP senators and representatives to shore up their support (for voter turnout, donations, primary protection, and so forth) with their base voters across the ideologically diverse GOP spectrum.
Personally I'm in the last group and I feel a lot of cognitive dissonance on this -- I support government funding of family planning clinics because the societal ROI on preventing STDs and unwanted pregnancies is huge, but I also very much want to see the Republicans start successfully attaching policy conditions to continued funding of the government.
The core GOP base, still angry about the super-majority period of the Obama administration and everything passed during it, wants to see the Republicans force through pieces of their agenda. The social conservative wing of the part dislikes planned parenthood. The fiscal conservative wing doesn't have a consistent opinion on planned parenthood but very much wants to see the Republicans have a spine on using budget bills and debt limits to force spending cuts, and so is supportive of the tactics if not the goal, because if they are successfully implemented they can be used again later on fiscal conservative priorities.
Basically this is a rare chance for GOP senators and representatives to shore up their support (for voter turnout, donations, primary protection, and so forth) with their base voters across the ideologically diverse GOP spectrum.
Personally I'm in the last group and I feel a lot of cognitive dissonance on this -- I support government funding of family planning clinics because the societal ROI on preventing STDs and unwanted pregnancies is huge, but I also very much want to see the Republicans start successfully attaching policy conditions to continued funding of the government.
Good and fair points, I have seen that there is around $7 saved for every dollar of federal funding that goes to these clinics, choose your number but there is a saving. The social costs of teenage births is one of the most profound and extreme problems that dooms those at the low end to a life of government assistance not to mention the cost to taxpayers.
Sure, these programs have been very effective. Out-of-wedlock birth rate in 1960 (pre great society) was about 5%. Now it is about 40%, after 55 years of planned parenthood, Sandra Fluke, and billions of federal tax dollars.
Good and fair points, I have seen that there is around $7 saved for every dollar of federal funding that goes to these clinics, choose your number but there is a saving. The social costs of teenage births is one of the most profound and extreme problems that dooms those at the low end to a life of government assistance not to mention the cost to taxpayers.
Oh, 100%. Regardless of the politics trying to cut this stuff is terrible policy.
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Sure, these programs have been very effective. Out-of-wedlock birth rate in 1960 (pre great society) was about 5%. Now it is about 40%, after 55 years of planned parenthood, Sandra Fluke, and billions of federal tax dollars.
The more you spend, the more you save!
Other things happened in the last 50 years. It's likely that without these programs things would be even worse. Blame cultural decay, destigmatization, and the welfare state, not subsidized birth control.
Sure, these programs have been very effective. Out-of-wedlock birth rate in 1960 (pre great society) was about 5%. Now it is about 40%, after 55 years of planned parenthood, Sandra Fluke, and billions of federal tax dollars.
The more you spend, the more you save!
Out of wedlock births have absolutely nothing to do with this issue, those are wanted birth. What point are you making, should health plans not offer birth control or did you ignore the statics stated. You are way off topic anyway unless Fluke attended one of these clinics, but at least you got that out of your system.
What else is new? Republicans want to cut almost everything but war funding. They are chomping at the bit now wanting to bomb Iran... God forbid we do something for the citizens of this country. They may call us the richest country in the world but we could afford to give everyone free health care if we didn't send foreign aid to country's that are doing just fine...
They want to defund these Title X clinics and they want to defund the family planning portion of PP (abortions are not federally funded) and at the same time they want to prevent abortions, that just does not make rational sense.
They want to defund these Title X clinics and they want to defund the family planning portion of PP (abortions are not federally funded) and at the same time they want to prevent abortions, that just does not make rational sense.
Abortion is destruction of a Human Soul.
Under the Obama Care these such programs are no longer required. It would nice take that money we used for PPH and help our Seniors instead wasting it under duplicated programs.
It does have perfect sense. Again the Democrats want to buy voters and continued on Illegal programs.
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