Steve from The Carpetbagger Report took a look at the new report from the Minority Office of the House Committee for Government Reform exposing the misinformation distributed by federally-funded crisis pregnancy centers, and he does a good job pointing out that this is yet another case of the same old news from the Bush administration – bad science being used to support an ideological agenda. It might be one thing for them to believe differently than the next person about the issue of abortion, but to spread widely debunked claims with federal funds in the name of their agenda is plainly irresponsible.

One thing that should be emphasized in addition to what Steve wrote: these programs are being funded with money meant for abstinence-only education. Where is the connection here?

Leaving behind the issues with bad science and ideological agendas, doesn’t this strike you as plainly inappropriate spending? There is no necessary connection between abstinence-only education for teens and anti-abortion counseling for women, but apparently the money all comes out of the same pot. Why would the federal government feel the need to give already-pregnant women misinformation on abortion at the expense of (often misinformed) sex education for teens?

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