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Originally Posted by directfiesta
true ... but how can you explain that cutting funding for Planned parenthood then would be essential to deficit reduction .. after all, it is only 360 million a year
Whats 4.7 billion - 360 million ?
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Takin $100 million of your money and giving it to Fred Phelps (Westboro) wouldn't affect the deficit either, yet I'm pretty sure you're see it as unconscionable.
Forcing 50% of the country to pay for murdering babies (as they see it) has nothing to do with the deficit. It has to do with they don't want to participate in the slaughter of innocents, financially or otherwise. Much like you might feel if you were forced to pay for NAMBLA, the KKK, etc. You can argue that the KKK, Westboro, or Planned Parenthood has the right to exist and to do what they please with THEIR money, but that's different from forcing all of us to pay their bills for them.
The only relationship to the deficit is that once we realize we're spending about $180,000 billion too much each year and we need to cut a lot out, we may as well start by stopping unconscionable spending - anything we're giving to hate groups, terrorists organizations, groups who do something similar to murder, etc.
(Not that partial birth abortion is necesarily murder per se, but it's certainly similar enough to murder that people shouldn't be forced to participate in it, financially or otherwise.)