From WOTW :

The Democrats killed a $30 million grant program to fund universal AIDS testing for newborns. Democrats smugly described the program as an “earmark” that Republicans should be happy to see go, but this was no cost-cutting measure; the money will now revert to a general pool for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in recent years has paid for such AIDS-prevention efforts as a “workshop on sex toys” in San Francisco and a seminar on safe sex in St. Louis that featured a porn star wearing nothing but a towel and boots. The real reason Democrats killed the program is that an assortment of left-wing groups oppose “violating the privacy” of mothers by encouraging them to get tested and mandating testing for their newborns — even though such efforts in New York and elsewhere have dramatically reduced the number of infants born with AIDS. That the Democrats would defund this program is disgraceful; that they would defend their action as part of the fight against earmarks is even more so.

Rich wrote about the program here.

Let Stephen Spruiell read Window on The Week to you here.