[Paleocrat]

I think it is rather disingenuous to imply that we would begin paying for these procedures under an Obama administration, when the fact is that we have funding them for quite some time. Within the Department of Human Services is the Office of Health and Public Science. Tucked away in that bureaucratic mess is the Office of Population Affairs. This group gets a hefty sum of money under the guise of Public Health Services. The vehicle through which PHS receives this money is known as Title X.

This disbursement goes to many groups, among them being Planned Parenthood. In fact, PP admits to having 35% of their funding come from the federal government. Their accounting for a minimum of 245,000 abortions would have them receiving around $82,000 in abortion related funding. That figure would hold true regardless of whether it is direct funding or indirect funding through subsidy.

Sadly, under Bush and a Republican controlled Congress (this figure is taken from 2005), monies allotted to this fund were increased. This increase was over $30 million more than Clinton's highest allotment. It is now over $300 million annually. Worst of all is that these bills bear the signatures of three Republican "pro-life" presidents, together accounting for no less than 20 of the 35 years Roe has been in existence.

There is no reason to believe that this will be any less true under a McCain presidency. He has signed on to most of the budgets sent to the president, all of which contain appropriations such as these. So to make it out as if McCain is pro-life, or that Republicans are pro-life, is to make pro-life mean something much less than... well... pro-life.

Side Note: Why isn't anyone up in arms over McCain and Palin having no apparent concern of abortifacient contraceptives? These account for almost six times as many aborted children than medical abortion. Come to think of it, was this even mentioned in Catholic Answers' so-called Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics?