In House food cuts, it's women and children first

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2011/03/in_house_food_cuts_its_women_a.html

WIC's offerings include milk -- whole milk until the second birthday, low-fat afterward -- and fruits and vegetables. The package has been made more nutritionally minded recently, something Savanah's mother, Raeleene, considers a major plus. WIC also holds nutritional and parenting classes; as David Brown, who heads the Gateway Center, points out, "The best way to influence nutrition is to start early."

Studies have found that pregnant women on WIC are considerably less likely to deliver low-birthweight babies. Children on WIC have better health records, stronger vitamin and iron intake and fewer cases of anemia than similar kids who aren't. They're also more likely to have their immunizations kept up, and cost Medicaid less during their childhood.

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Among the various curiosities of this policy, all underlined in high-calcium orange juice, is that next to cutting domestic spending, the new House's other priority has been fighting abortion. HR3, coming right after HR1, would ban tax deductibility for any health insurance plans that cover abortion. The House wants to end all federal contracts with Planned Parenthood, and just to be safe -- or rather, unsafe -- also wants to end all Title X low-income family planning assistance.

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If you're powerfully against abortion, but you also want to cut back on feeding pregnant women and infants, just what is it you're for?

[roguevalley]

1. It will be a stain on the honor and soul of anyone who voted for it

and Obama if he doesn't rail against it to the heavens. But I guess there is a silver lining. When the nannies of the rich feed the welps of the zillionaires, wiping their faces with one hundred dollar bills, they won't be lacking for anything.

Obama? Do you even had a soul?

[DCKit]

2. Love the fetus, hate the baby. nt

[Zoeisright]

3. I. Hate. Repukes.

They are pure evil.