Come One, Come All, Pap Smears Now Offered At Walgreens!

That will be the day.
We will now let Mr. Colbert break it down for us good folk:

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Now, in a surprise step that has set off deep alarm among advocates for women’s health, the newly conservative House of Representatives has proposed cutting the entire $317 million program of aid for family planning, known as Title X, in a 2011 spending bill that is expected to pass by the weekend. A proposed amendment to the bill would also bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds for any purpose. The amendment was the subject of an emotional three-hour debate on Thursday night.

With a total budget of some $1.1 billion, more than a third of which comes from the federal, state and local governments, Planned Parenthood offers family planning, H.I.V.counseling, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screening and other services as well as abortions, mainly to low-income women. Congress has long barred the use of federal money for abortion, but it provides more than $75 million a year to Planned Parenthood affiliates to support family planning for low-income women. Millions more in federal dollars are provided for sex education and, indirectly, through Medicaid and other programs.

For every dollar spent on contraception for low-income women, the government saves four dollars in medical costs within the next year by averting unwanted pregnancies, said Ms. Cohen of the Guttmacher Institute.
NYTIMES

Planned Parenthood receives approximately $300 million from the federal government, Rovner says, an amount that includes not only funds for the Title X family planning program but also Medicaid funds and support for the Maternal and Child Health block grant program. Federal funds cannot be used to provide abortion services, notes Rovner.

NPR

House Republicans sought to take all federal dollars that go to Planned Parenthood and other family-planning groups to help poor women and turn them over to the states instead. This was a nonstarter for President Obamaand Senate Democrats and so this policy rider, which threatened to derail the entire plan to avert a government shutdown, was removed.
Instead, both the House and Senate are scheduled to vote Thursday on a stand-alone bill to take away all federal funds from Planned Parenthood, a measure that was part of a House spending bill passed in February that failed in the Senate. The current bill will likely face a similar fate in both chambers.


Although Democrats and Republicans are fighting largely over how to tame the federal deficit and lead the nation out of a protracted fiscal crisis, it seems increasingly clear that the two sides are also going to be at loggerheads over the profound social issues that have divided the nation for the past several decades.

NyTimes


Budget Reduction = A Functioning Public Service Called Planned Parenthood
A Healthy and Informed Sexual Community = A lot of things but Planned Parenthood is one of them. 
And yes, people will have sex, let's be able to do so with the community behind us and not in front of us (All sorts of images running through my mind here). 


And for kicks, Jon Stewart: