From Drudge:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, “Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom,” seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC’s THIS WEEK.

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.

“No apologies, no.”

I wonder what’s next with this sort of horrifying (to say nothing of historically morally bankrupt) logic. Nationalized health care mandating that people can’t have children because of economic means testing? Abortions being required because local schools are overcrowded?

Given her views of birth control, and her rather large family, I also wonder about the apparent hypocrisy of her lack of apologism.

If this is the “return of science” promised by the Democrats, then it is a dark perversion of science indeed.