This is truly sad that the first major political initiative would be to attack abortion rights as a way to lower the national deficit (N: it's governed by state law what types of abortion causes are funded by taxpayers, and thirteen states (AK, AZ, CA, CT, IL, MA, MN, MT, NJ, NM, OR, VT, and WV) have non discriminatory assistance for abortions). Politically, I think what many Republicans hoped to do when co-signing this bill is to introduce their moral agenda to foment their constituents and at the same time seem like they're fullfilling their vow of lowering the federal deficit by cutting medicaid to abortion. Because I am pro-choice, I certainly advocate writing our congressmen about this issue... but I understand if other people don't want to indirectly fund abortion through taxes. In the long-term problem of reducing national deficit and creating jobs, I feel like there are so much many more ways other than abortion... but the change has to come from entrepreneurs. Not all the legislation in the world (from either Democrats or Republicans) will pull this economy out of disaster unless we all work determinedly and creatively to create wealth.
EDIT: reference from http://www.aclu.org/reproductive-freedom/public-funding-abortion
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