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Do Your Part For the Economy - Kill Off a Kid Or Two . .
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi defended tacking birth control onto the TARP stimulus bill by saying that fewer babies are good for the economy. According to the exchange with host George Stephanopolis on ABC’s This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.�
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