Comments on: Health Care Reform Update: Effort to Restrict Abortion Coverage Fails, Mixed Results on Abstinence Only Funding http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/10/health-care-reform-update-effort-to-restrict-abortion-coverage-fails-mixed-results-on-abstinence-only-funding Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JoshuasGrandma http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/10/health-care-reform-update-effort-to-restrict-abortion-coverage-fails-mixed-results-on-abstinence-only-funding/comment-page-1#comment-2813 JoshuasGrandma Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:06:37 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=9075#comment-2813 The efforts to keep Ab-only funding seem to demonstrate once again that blind ideology trumps common sense every time. But it's not just blind because the radical right uses that ab-only money to fund their grassroots organizing activities. It's true in every state that takes the money - so no wonder that they want to keep it. It's not just ideology, it's their political survival so we can't just lay back and hope - extra efforts are needed to eliminate that funding like Obama did. Why should the taxpayer fund religious right political activities? It's unconstitutional and against the law. The efforts to keep Ab-only funding seem to demonstrate once again that blind ideology trumps common sense every time.

But it’s not just blind because the radical right uses that ab-only money to fund their grassroots organizing activities. It’s true in every state that takes the money – so no wonder that they want to keep it. It’s not just ideology, it’s their political survival so we can’t just lay back and hope – extra efforts are needed to eliminate that funding like Obama did. Why should the taxpayer fund religious right political activities? It’s unconstitutional and against the law.

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