Reply #6: Whoa! Did you know funding for abstinence education also funds anti-abortion clinics??? [View All]

[madfloridian]

I did not know that. I had no clue. Here is an article about it.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20081128/NEWS/811280361/1338/NEWS00?Title=Abortion_Foes_Are_Having_to_Change_Strategies

"Krista Yurchak, executive director of Lakeland's other anti-abortion clinic, A Woman's Choice, said she expects more demand for the clinic's services as a result of the political realignment in Washington. She said she is already planning to stoke her marketing efforts, which now include television commercials, a phone directory ad and an Internet presence.

.."Yurchak said her clinic benefits from a federal grant for abstinence-based education that she now considers to be in jeopardy. The five-year grant, which Yurchak labeled "substantial," began last year.

"We're all very aware we need to move quickly to secure private funding so we don't have to be dependent on this federal grant, because that's something that may go away," Yurchak said.

Rutherford said operators of clinics like hers also worry about increased government scrutiny. She noted former New York attorney general Elliott Spitzer investigated pregnancy centers a few years ago in a move abortion foes decried as intimidation.

Rutherford suggested similar steps could arise in Florida, though that seems unlikely in a state with a Republican governor and attorney general and a Republican-dominated legislature."

Her funding began last year? That was 2007...our Democrats controlled congress.

That must be when our Democrats increased funding for abstinence only almost 28 million dollars.

Amazing the things I don't know.

:shrug: