Pirate's Cove

Grist GINK Lisa Hymas is beating her typical “population is bad for the environment and globull warming” meme yet again

Deficit-peacock Republicans in the House don’t want to make any cuts at all to the budgets of the Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security, but they’re delighted to completely eliminate funding for a family-planning program that serves low-income Americans. No matter that the move would actually increase long-term costs to taxpayers.

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday unveiled a list of proposed spending cuts for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year, including zeroing out $327 million in funding for the Title X family-planning program. As Politico explains, “Started in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, Title X is the only source of federal funds dedicated solely to family planning and reproductive health. Some 5 million women and men received services through 4,500 community-based clinics in 2008, according to the Department of Health & Human Services.” (snip)

Title X funds don’t go to abortions, but some of the money does go to Planned Parenthood clinics to provide other services. In a post entitled “House GOP Declares War on Planned Parenthood,” Nick Baumann of Mother Jones writes, “The cuts are a victory for Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), who has led the push for slashing all funding for abortion providers in general and Planned Parenthood specifically.”

Obviously, reducing the population of poor people (and people in general) is a big issue with the left, in order to save Gaia from mankind and globull warming and environmental degradation. Interesting that they do not want poor people to reproduce. They want poor people to have access to contraceptives and abortions. Imagine the furor if people on the right advocated poor people not reproducing.

Ultimately the cuts wouldn’t even reduce government spending—they’d increase it: “The simple fact is, family planning programs like Title X save money. For every public dollar invested in family planning, taxpayers save nearly $4,” says Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, citing a study by the Guttmacher Institute [PDF].

Lisa doesn’t want to come out and actually write it, but, those “family planning” programs are a way of limiting the population, especially for poor people. Eugenics is a big belief of the hard left, and, I really do not think I am crossing a line when I say that Hitler would be proud.

Related, Michelle Malkin is calling for Planned Parenthood to be completely defunded.