I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison
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Kirsten Powers, a conservative commentator, said that she doesn't think the people who don't want to fund Planned Parenthood care about women and their health and wellbeing, and that they're more concerned with politics than with the women's well-being. "The question isn't morality, the question is money," she said. "That's what we're upset about."

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