US House economic-stimulus package could undercut parents, force massive taxpayer family-planning subsidies
January 23, 2009
An obscure provision of economic-stimulus legislation could greatly expand federal subsidies for family-planning clinics and undercut parental authority to supervise the care of their minor children, according to an analysis by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think-tank. Analyst Dennis Smith says that Section 5004 of a stimulus package now pending in the House of Representatives would "make Medicaid into a virtual money-machine for family planning clinics." The legislation, as it stands, would expand federal funding for family-planning services to cover college students, allow minors to obtain those services without their parents' knowledge, extend government subsidies to students regardless of their parents' income level, and possibly include coverage for fertility treatments.
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