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Funding for sex habits proceed { July 14 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026861.cfm http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0026861.cfm July 14, 2003 Funding for Sex-Habits Studies to Proceed By David Brody, Washington, D.C., correspondent Do you want your taxes to pay for controversial sex studies? Neither do 210 congressmen, but their votes still weren't enough to stop the funding. A Republican attempt to stop the funding of some controversial sex research studies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has failed. The vote in the House of Representatives was close at 212-210, but when the smoke cleared, these studies of questionable value were allowed to continue. Some of the ongoing projects by the NIH have taken some conservative lawmakers by surprise. Rep. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., led the charge to try and stop them. "I just don't understand how we can justify spending taxpayer money on studying American-Indian-Alaskan-native-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-and-two-spirited-individuals and their psychological problems," Toomey said. He and Rep. Chris Chocola, R-Ind., offered legislation that would have prohibited the NIH from funding this and four other projects, including studying Asian prostitutes in San Francisco and the sexual habits of old men. Perhaps the most controversial involves women watching pornography so arousal can be measured. "I think that most people don't have any idea that this is going on, and I think when they find out they're appalled by this kind of stuff," Toomey said. Mike Schwartz, vice president of government relations at Concerned Women for America, said one of the big problems is that lawmakers love to throw money at the NIH so they look compassionate in the process. "The National Institutes of Health is out of control," Schwartz said. But, he added, what happens is an organization that's already too big continues to grow. "The National Institutes of Health is spending money in a wasteful way because they have more money than is good for them." Members who voted against the amendment say Congress shouldn't be telling the NIH what projects they should be doing. "My response to that is we have an obligation to be looking over the spending of every government agency," Toomey said. In the end though, that was not enough to convince members that these strange sexual studies should be axed. Thirty-three Democrats voted for the amendment, and 46 Republicans voted against it. The measure was offered as an amendment to the annual funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH. TAKE ACTION Find out how your representative voted on the Toomey/Chocola Amendment. An "Aye" vote would have prohibited funding for the offensive studies. A "Nay" supported funding for the studies. After you discover how your representative voted, please contact him or her and express your opinion on his or her vote. You can find the Roll Call vote, as well as contact information for your representative, at our Legislative Action Center. You can receive family news stories by e-mail. Sign up now for this complimentary service. Copyright © 2003 Focus on the Family

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