Is This Really a Wise Course of Action?

I hesitated in posting this, but thought you might benefit from some reflection on the issue. Last week, President Obama repealed the Mexico City Policy, in effect allowing hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to be allocated for abortions in other countries. This week, Nancy Pelosi affirmed her committment to direct a large portion of the new stimulus package toward "family planning" (largely, abortion).

Now forget, for a moment, about which side you take on the issue. Set your moral and religious caps aside (if that's possible), and securely affix your economic beret. Given the current state of the economy, is this a wise use of our tax money? To put it another way, if you lost your job and were struggling to stay afloat, and you wrote to Speaker Pelosi asking her how she's going to help get us out of this mess, and she wrote back stating that a large part of her solution involved cutting costs by providing abortions to, primarily, poor minorities, would you be fine with that? Would you believe that a measure like that would move the economy forward?

Denny Burk puts it this way,

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is defending the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of the forthcoming stimulus package are to be spent on “family planning.” Her argument is very simple. The economy is bad. Having babies costs money. Would-be parents need to save their money by not having babies."

Here is the video of Pelosi:

Finally, I would strongly commend Matt Perman's thoughts to you. He concludes the following:

1. First, the values embodied in this perspective are completely backwards. Quite simply, it fails to recognize that people — human life — is the most valuable reality in creation.
2. Second, the economic perspective in her comments is also wrong.
3. Third, the children that are born today are not simply the solutions to the problem of tomorrow. They make society better today.

Read his entire post for more.