Pupulation Control as Economic Stimulus

This Week host George Stephanopoulos and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed some items in the so-called "stimulus package." One plan for turning around the economy is apparently reducing the number of babies. After all, they are a financial burden. This is scary to me.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.