Health & Human Services At It Again

HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebilius, (never met an abortion she didn't like), is charged with writing most of the rules and regulations that will implement the newly passed Health Care Bill.

 

The new health care law directs HHS, to accept applications for grant program, that will supposedly help states provide support services to teens and pregnant women. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Indian Tribes and all US Territories are eligible to apply for the federal grants by the August 2nd deadline. HHS is on record, that it will award up to 25 grants in the amounts of $500,000 to $2 million per year. This is our tax-payer dollar, and we want to be sure that it goes to help women, not support Planned Parenthood or other organizations that promote and provide abortions, as the solution to a crisis pregnancy.

 

Questions from the pro-life community have arisen. Crisis pregnancy resource centers have provided these services for years, without government funding. Many see the new grant program, as a way for the Obama Administration to funnel dollars to Planned Parenthood and other organizations, that provide abortion services.

 

HHS has said, that any group is eligible to apply, and those that do receive funds, must use them in compliance with the program's requirements. Yes, and do you think requirements will change as time goes by? Do we really want the government stipulating the requirements for helping pregnant women and teens. How many bureaucrats will it take to run the grant program? How much of my tax dollar will go to really helping someone, or to paying somebody's salary?

 

The government provides $350 million dollars a year to Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider. How much more will we be giving, if they are found eligible for the grant? Do we have doubts that they will be found eligible for the grant?

 

How about you? What do you think? How should your tax-payer dollar be given, if at all? But that's already been taken care of by the Federal Health Care Bill, which contained more than most people knew.