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George Stephanopoulos questioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tonight about the wisdom of spending hundreds of millions of dollars from the "bail-out" money on giving away birth control. George is wondering how birth control money being given away is going to stimulate the economy.

Reporting and analysis from ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and "This Week" Host George Stephanopoulos

Pelosi Defends Family Planning Spending in Stimulus Package

January 25, 2009

During my exclusive interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, I asked her about some of the more controversial spending in the stimulus package, including hundreds of millions to expand family planning services...

"The family planning services reduce cost," Pelosi said, "One of the elements of this package is assistance to the states. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

"So no apologies for that?" I asked her.

"No apologies. No," Pelosi said...

So... we are to conclude from this that children are now to be considered too much of a financial burden not only to families but also too much of a financial burden to the states? Therefore we are not only now going to pay for abortions in other nations around the world, but we are also going to prevent the conception of children in our own nation because of finances.

This is draconian thinking and will bring about... negative consequences to our nation. Guaranteed.

This is our tax money... that we haven't paid yet... at work.

Oh... and just in case you haven't read about it... the tax burden we are going to be paying is going to be collected by a tax evader.

Nice.

H/T to Drudge