Put this in your ammo belt for the next time you have to debate a drone.
Via Weekly Standard:
In the debate over defunding Planned Parenthood, supporters of legalized abortion and reporters point out again and again that federal law prohibits direct taxpayer funding of abortion.
While that’s technically true (at least until Obamacare goes into full effect), the law does nothing to prevent tax dollars from subsidizing abortionists.
The lax regulation that was issued by the Clinton administration and still governs Title X, the federal government’s contraception program, explicitly allows Title X programs and abortion clinics to share the same facilities and even the same staff.
“Separation of Title X from abortion activities does not require separate grantees or even a separate health facility,” according to the regulation.
Certain kinds of shared facilities are permissible, so long as it is possible to distinguish between the Title X supported activities and non-Title X abortion-related activities: (a) A common waiting room is permissible, as long as the costs properly pro-rated; (b) common staff is permissible, so long as salaries are properly allocated and all abortion related activities of the staff members are performed in a program which is entirely separate from the Title X project; (c) a hospital offering abortions for family planning purposes and also housing a Title X project is permissible, as long as the abortion activities are sufficiently separate from the Title X project; and (d) maintenance of a single file system for abortion and family planning patients is permissible, so long as costs are properly allocated.
The regulation claims that “separate bookkeeping entries alone will not satisfy the spirit of the law,” and it also states: “A grantee may demonstrate that prohibited abortion-related activities are not part of the Title X project by various means, including counseling and service protocols, intake and referral procedures, material review procedures, and other administrative procedures.”