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(Texas) Lawmakers Could Restore Family Planning Funds
When state lawmakers passed a two-year budget in 2011 that moved $73 million from family planning services to other programs, the goal was largely political: halt the flow of taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood clinics.Now they are facing the policy implications — and, in some cases, reconsidering.
The latest Health and Human Services Commission projections being circulated among Texas lawmakers indicate that during the 2014-15 biennium poor women will deliver an estimated 23,760 more babies than they would have as a result of their reduced access to state-subsidized birth control. The additional cost to taxpayers is expected to be as much as $273 million — $103 million to $108 million to the state’s general revenue budget alone — and the bulk of it is the cost of caring for those infants under Medicaid.
People making dumb decisions and then blaming others because they did not give them an easy solution is what is wrong with today's society. If your poor and cannot afford a child and cannot afford your own birth control then perhaps you should not have sex, or would that make to much sense?
Yeah yeah - in your ideal world, the poor would be sterilised or maybe just forced to wear chastity belts, but in the real world - what solution do you offer?
Yes I realize expecting all people to actually act responsibly is a pipe dream. Im not asking anyone to do something I myself am not willing to do. I have practiced celibacy for many years, it is not difficult it just takes a little will power.
Smart people sometimes make bad decisions but learn from their mistakes. Dumb people make the same bad decisions over and over. I feel we should help those in need but on a voluntary basis and not forcefully. Why should I as a responsible person constantly have to pay (with my tax dollars) for others who make mistake after mistake. Call me selfish if you wish but yes I would almost rather have persons who show poor judgement time and again by having multiple children they cannot support to be sterilized before receiving tax funded aid.
Yeah yeah - in your ideal world, the poor would be sterilised or maybe just forced to wear chastity belts, but in the real world - what solution do you offer?
Wasn't it argued by "ideologues" that sex education in schools would solve this problem?
Now it seems that the government wants to reenter the abortion biz, a euphemism for "Family Planning", in order to get rid of children unfortunate not to be born into well off families.
What's the euphemism for that these days?
Shouldn't try and use that "sex-education excuse' when talking about Texas - schools in Texas offer either abstinence-only classes or nothing at all - because so many 'religious' parents object to schools telling the kids anything about sex.
Nice diversion by the way - the question remains: What would you have done in this specific instance? The Republican legislators tried to kill Planned Parenthood AND did so by claiming they would be saving taxpayer dollars - instead they are spending perhaps three times as much - so what's a rightie gonna do?
it does seem to be a pattern of behaviour for Republicans - pass a bill with loud proclamations about how many dollars they are saving taxpayers and almost invariably the result costs the taxpayers more than the liberal ideas.
Shouldn't try and use that "sex-education excuse' when talking about Texas - schools in Texas offer either abstinence-only classes or nothing at all - because so many 'religious' parents object to schools telling the kids anything about sex.
Nice diversion by the way - the question remains: What would you have done in this specific instance? The Republican legislators tried to kill Planned Parenthood AND did so by claiming they would be saving taxpayer dollars - instead they are spending perhaps three times as much - so what's a rightie gonna do?
it does seem to be a pattern of behaviour for Republicans - pass a bill with loud proclamations about how many dollars they are saving taxpayers and almost invariably the result costs the taxpayers more than the liberal ideas.
Do what we do, you can't get out of sex ed. it's a requirement for graduation.
Sex education needs to cover all the bases not just the politcally correct ones. They should show films of the effect of STD in classes to give the kids a real idea of what the problem is like they did in driving classes.
Yes I realize expecting all people to actually act responsibly is a pipe dream.
In fact I never mentioned Texas but I've been told abstinence actually works.
Well of course it does. Right up until the moment you are not abstinent anymore.
"Alright, everyone stop having sex" and expecting it to work... that doesn't work.
Who are you quoting here?
The fact is that abstinence does work and it should be encouraged for young people. Why not? There are more unwed mothers than ever, more irresponsible fathers and yet, paradoxically it seems, more sex education than ever. All this sex ed. and we still need "Planned Parenthood" with the government providing abortions!
Where did we go wrong? Too many conservatives?
Nice unfounded and unrelated instances you laced together there. More unwed mothers, more irresponsible fathers and more sex ed than ever. Therefore more sex ed caused the formers and there is absolutely no other influences in our society. Logic doesn't work that way.
Abstinence works until you chose to have sex.
And almost everyone chooses to have sex. Therefore just telling people not to have sex doesn't work
because they will agree, then go out and have sex. Abstinence only doesn't deal with facts. It deals with a fairyland notion.
There are more unwed mothers than ever, more irresponsible fathers and yet
But teen pregnancy rates have actually fallen rapidly over the last 20 years...
People making dumb decisions and then blaming others because they did not give them an easy solution is what is wrong with today's society. If your poor and cannot afford a child and cannot afford your own birth control then perhaps you should not have sex, or would that make to much sense?
I don't know where you got your stats but here is the real deal over a longer time period.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf
In fact I never mentioned Texas but I've been told abstinence actually works.
Know what else makes sense? 1: You cannot shut off millions of years of evolutionary responses.
2: Birth control does not always work.
Your link while more complete does nothing to equate birth rate with sex education. Not to mention it also supports Jet's graph in that it does show that teen pregnancy is on the decline..lower now than it was in 1980. Along with a decline of non marital births from 50% in 1970 down to 23% in 2007.
It also shows nothing about whether those births were with women that were well off and could support thier child without help vs children whose mother couldn't afford them without help.
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