!?!?! MO bans contraceptive funding for low-income women !?!?!?!?

and they don't want abortions?????

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14109047.htm



Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006
Low-income women would be affected
House OKs birth control funding ban
By KIT WAGARThe Star’s Jefferson City correspondent

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House voted Wednesday to ban state funding of contraceptives for low-income women and to prohibit state-funded programs from referring those women to other programs.

Critics jumped on the proposal, saying it would lead to more abortions and more unwanted children on welfare.

But the proposal’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Susan Phillips of Kansas City, said contraceptive services were an inappropriate use of tax dollars. “If doctors want to give contraception privately or personally, they can,” Phillips said. “But we don’t need to pay for contraception with taxpayer funds.”

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Ah, fundy world.

will say again what I said then: watch out for Griswald vs. Connecticut. This was the landmark case that started everything. In Griswald, the SC determined that the state was intruding on the privacy rights of a married couple by prohibiting the sale of birth control methods. This was the case where "privacy rights" was first discussed. The nut jobs are going to start to chip away at it, just watch.

this is challenged, so they can take it to the Supreme Court. Griswold was the case that established a right to privacy, & became the precedent for Roe v. Wade. If they can overturn Griswold, they've overturned the legal basis for abortion rights.

How do they feel about chastity belts?

the most.


Maybe it was a bias study my wife showed me but it concluded that most low income women have at least 4 children and do not think about protection.

to raise a child to age 18. :sarcasm:

Rep. Phillips has her priorities all wrong. This is soooo messed up...and frightening.

push for that bill? This is totally screwed up! What would happen if those fools also had a major boycott of their tourism. I guess Susan Phillips thinks a better use of tax dollars is welfare for unwanted kids--juvenile detention for unwanted kids--prisons for people who didn't have a chance because they were unwanted kids.

cannon fodder and slave labor.

they will be angling to change the child labor laws to allow kids as young as 5 to work in factories for up to 12 hours per day. This must be how they plan to end the outsourcing of jobs to China.

This country is really so fucked up that I can't even think about it seriously anymore.

Welcome to the Republic of Gilead.