Federal Aid for Poor Families Is Being Used to Fund Anti-Abortion Movement: Report

[In It to Win It]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-aid-poor-families-being-191845625.html

At least 18 states are funding crisis centers that aim to dissuade pregnant women from getting abortions, and some of them are using federal grant money intended to help poor families to do so, according to a report by CNN Tuesday.

Some health care advocates say that the public funds are being misused, since the crisis centers clearly have a political mission but do not perform basic services such as breast and cervical cancer screenings, even as they provide highly controversial and sometimes deceptive advice.

“Pregnancy center leaders and their state government allies say the organizations deserve taxpayer funds because they provide pregnant women with resources like free diapers and ultrasounds,” CNN’s Casey Tolan, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Isabelle Chapman write. “But some of the centers also lie to women about the safety and potential risks of abortion, according to multiple studies, abortion rights activists, and women who have been to the centers.”

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That comes as no surprise. Give those redneck shits a favor

And they will stab your back and quote scripture all the while.

[reymega life]

2. the red states remind me of communist iran or Venezuela

nationalized poverty and high cost.

[Skittles]

3. and forced pregnancies lead to more poverty

fuck these fascist fucks

[OneTotalMook]

4. ... are there no prisons? ... are there no workhouses? n/t

[tanyev]

6. But they'd better not apply for food stamps or free school lunches for the children!

They should get a second, third or fourth job. And if the kids have trouble in school, it's the parents' fault for not spending enough time with them.

[Wounded Bear]

8. ...and more poverty leads to more federal funds to divert...

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Turbineguy]

5. Cuz there's nothing

that helps poor families more than having children?

[ShazzieB]

7. Highly controversial and SOMETIMES deceptive advice?

Saying that those bogus crisis pregnancy centers "provide highly controversial and sometimes deceptive advice" is giving them way too much credit. So is "some of the centers also lie to women about the safety and potential risks of abortion."

The person who wrote this article is tippy toeing around the truth, imnsho. Those places are "staffed" by people who are strongly antichoice AND have no actual health care training, which pretty much guarantees that their advice is going to be highly unreliable at best and full of falsehoods at worst.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Most are simply fronts for evangelizing and proselytizing...nt

[flying_wahini]

10. So they don't want to pay for Planned Parenthood clinics that actually help women

And using OUR tax money for “God’s work”?

The problem is that most evangelicals think this is fine.