Brown Shirts Matter

Pushed for school vouchers which allow parents of low-income families to pick better schools for their children.

Private schools offer a better education at a lower cost per pupil. Religious schools seldom, if ever, have a religious curriculum. And since the school would be selected by the parent, this does not violate the establishment clause. Under your logic we need to discontinue any cash welfare, because what if someone were to choose to use that money to buy a bible?

No, it's not. While some would object to vouchers being used at Islamic schools. They would be wrong. The school would still be chosen by the parent. All vouchers would do if give families an option besides the failing public school system, which keeps failing no matter how much money gets thrown at it. No one would be forced into a religious school, as opposed to public, against their will. If the schools don't perform, parents don't choose them, they don't get vouchers. (Personally I'd like to see Wicca and Hindu schools crop up, but that just a tangent)

But there IS a part of the Doctor's Hippocratic oath that says 'do no harm'.
If you'd like to tell me how crushing a baby's skull with forceps is 'not doing any harm', well I'm all ears.

The problem is parents have no other options, and they have been trying to fix it for years, decades even, but they keep making it worse.
Vouchers is a solution that has proven successes in states that do them.
The arguement for funding planned parenthood is that abortion is only 10% (or whatever the small figure is) of what they do, and that we supposedly don't pay for that part.
Religious schools provide educational services that aren't religious in nature. All that we have to say is that vouchers can't pay for religious studies. There's no reason a student cant take math, reading, history, science, etc. At these schools. There could even be creationism vs. Evolution clauses in voucher rules that render schools ineligible for vouchers.