Help is finally on the way for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the war rages on in the Middle East, the conflict at home has finally been settled over the controversial war supplemental bill (H.R. 2642), which passed the House by a 268-155 vote.
Thanks to the efforts of Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the legislation--worth $161.8 billion--heads back to the Senate without a provision that would have given groups like Planned Parenthood a discount on contraception and drugs like Plan B that can act as abortifacients. Had the language been included, a future president could have applied the prices to abortion drugs like RU-486, if he so chose. Planned Parenthood's clinics, which already make a tidy profit on these pills, would have used the lower costs to broaden the drug's distribution and lure more women into taking medication that has already caused serious side effects.
Considering the number of accusations leveled at Planned Parenthood in the last six months, including a multi-million suit involving a fraudulent mark-up on the price of these very pills, Congress should be highly skeptical of the investments it's already making in Planned Parenthood--let alone future ones.
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