Tim Carney exposes the Democrats’ so-called “common ground” abortion agenda for what it is — an attempt to subsidize their political allies with taxpayer dollars:

Clinton’s campaign Web site touts that she has “battled the big drug companies.” Yet she has sponsored many bills that would directly subsidize Barr Laboratories, maker of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, which also functions as an abortifacient. Thanks to a deal cut between Barr and Planned Parenthood, those taxpayer subsidies will yield generous profits for the pro-choice group that every four years spends millions trying to elect a Democrat to the White House. On Sept. 27, Clinton and eight other Democratic senators introduced the “Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007.” While Clinton’s broad health care plan would “limit direct-to-consumer advertising” of prescription drugs, this particular bill would subsidize such advertising for emergency contraceptives in the name of a public awareness campaign for “postcoital contraception.” In effect, this bill would give Planned Parenthood tax money to conduct an ad campaign for the morning-after pill.

This is always the Left’s game — let us live off the taxpayer. When Clinton, Bob Casey (D-Pa.), and other pro-abortion Democrats try to advance the statistically false claim that more public funding for contraception will prevent abortions, remember that they don’t care about the number of abortions — they’re just subsidizing a group that backs them for re-election.