You thought they would stop at banning abortion? No dearest American women, the Republicans not only want to own the rights to your uteri, they want to make sure that any sex you might have will put them to good use pushing out babies for the greater glory of God and Country, especially if you are guilty of poverty. Think I’m kidding about this? Then explain this story from Missouri:
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – An attempt to resume state spending on birth control got shot down Wednesday by House members who argued it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles.
Missouri stopped providing money for family planning and certain women’s health services when Republicans gained control of both chambers of the Legislature in 2003.
But a Democratic lawmaker, in a little-noticed committee amendment, had successfully inserted language into the proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that would have allowed part of the $9.2 million intended for “core public health functions” to go to contraception provided through public health clinics.
The House voted 96-59 to delete the funding for contraception and infertility treatments after Rep. Susan Phillips told lawmakers that anti-abortion groups such as Missouri Right to Life were opposed to the spending.
“If you hand out contraception to single women, we’re saying promiscuity is OK as a state, and I am not in support of that,” Phillips, R-Kansas City, said in an interview.
Today, poor women get slandered by Republicans as “sluts” and deprived of family planning services. Tomorrow . . . ?