Countywide : Support for Family Planning Bill Urged
County Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder urged support of a state bill Monday that would restore most of a recent, $24-million cut in state assistance to family planning centers.
Wieder told a crowd of about 100 people at Leisure World that “you are going to be missionaries” to help pass AB 99, an effort to restore $20 million to the family planning budget. “You are going to be the squeaky wheel that gets the attention of legislators.”
Gov. George Deukmejian’s proposed budget unveiled Jan. 10 would slice more than $1 billion in services to the poor. In Orange County, the family planning budget dropped from $500,000 to about $86,000 with the cuts, Wieder said.
“Nobody is looking at what the loss incurred by these cuts will be in the long run,” she said, adding that the budget reductions “could create $190 million in additional costs.”
Assembly Bill 99 was written by 31st District Assemblyman Bruce Bronzan (D-Fresno).
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