Did She Really Say This?

Pelosi: Fewer babies = stronger economy

by Charlie Butts and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/27/2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stirred up a hornet's nest by promoting the idea of spending of millions of dollars on birth control and abortion as part of the economic stimulus package.

"Contraception," argued Pelosi, "will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." Her comments came on ABC's This Week when asked by host George Stephanopoulos how expanding "family-planning services" to the tune of millions of dollars will stimulate the economy. OneNewsNow sought reaction from Susan Fani, director of communications for the Catholic League.

"It's quite shocking, actually, that the Speaker of the House -- who claims to be Catholic -- would go on national television and claim that contraception would reduce the cost to the government," exclaims Fani. "It's just beyond words, really."

Catholic League president Bill Donohue finds her comments revealing. "We have reached a new low when high-ranking public office holders in the federal government cast children as the enemy," he offers in a press statement. "But at least it explains their enthusiasm for abortion-on-demand."

America needs to produce 2.1 children per couple to keep up with births to support the population -- and that rate is not being maintained. Economies in Europe have been especially hurt by a drop in birth rates.

MWC Comment: What happens when you terminate one in three future taxpayers for the past 35 years? The economy suffers! Those babies could have been using diapers, formula, clothing, daycare services, educational services (teachers and schools), buying cars, considering going to college, planning weddings, buying houses, and those who would have been turning 35 this year (had they not been aborted in the early 1970's) would now have been producing families of their own. Check out the book "The Cost of Abortion (An Analysis of the Social, Economic, and Demographic Effects of Abortion on the United States)" by Lawrence F. Roberge at www.amazon.com.