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Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control

by Steven D
Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 09:31:00 AM EST

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 . . . ?

Reproductive Rights Republicans Family Planning Right to Life contraception

Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 9)

Well, DUH, if you stop giving contraceptives to poor women they'll just stop having sex. End of problem. See how easy it is? Fuuuuuuuuuuck these people!

"Don't waste your time on the clowns, watch the real show"

by Second Nature on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 09:55:49 AM EST

They'll probably have a passel of kids (4.00 / 8)

and the ones who manage to survive their childhood will be premean/tough as hell and properly impoverished enough to need and want to fight in the next war! It's called arms build up. I'm just making a joke, but then again sometimes I wonder.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 10:25:00 AM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 9)

Yes, welcome to my world.

I invite you all to come live in Missouri for a while and put up with crap like this. For years. It might make your own state look like paradise.

Help me raise money for Jay Nixon, the next Democratic governor of Missouri

by maryb2004 on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 10:20:32 AM EST

Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 5)

Unfortunately, there are plenty of us in other states with idiots in the legislature.

But they aren't usually quite this blatant about their prejudice and idiocy.

I hope somebody asks Rep. Susan Phillips when she is introducing legislation for addition money for pre-natal care, food, shelter, and education. Or perhaps she would like to just declare herself as indifferent to the children of poor, 'promiscuous' women as she is to their mothers.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abbey

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:05:24 AM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 3)

I know we are not the only idiotic state. But we must rank right up there among the worst. Here's just a sample of what's pending at the state level:

A Bill to bar illegal aliens from attending state universities

A Bill to require picture ID in order to vote.

A Bill that would ask Missourians to change the state constitution to "secure a citizen's right to acknowledge Almighty God" in schools and other public places.

Or how about A bill that would prohibit alimony payments for ex-spouses that live with boyfriends or girlfriends, or a law requiring state agencies, public schools and local governments to call all recognized holidays by the "traditional" names".

An especially busy legislator is Rep. Cynthia Davis, from O'Fallon. She has publicly compared liberals to terrorists and proposed a bill that would require schools to teach alternatives to the theory of evolution.
Now she is pushing legislation that would enable schools to delete information about contraception from sex education classes. Teachers would tell students to consult their doctors.

Somedays I have state law stupidity fatigue.

Help me raise money for Jay Nixon, the next Democratic governor of Missouri

by maryb2004 on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:24:13 PM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (none / 0)

I definitely don't want to get into a competition with you because it would be to depressing (e.g., Indiana already has a law required picture ID to vote).

What I don't get is why nobody seems to call them on the cognitive dissonance of restricting abortion and access to birth control while not providing any additional services for those extra kids they just made sure would be showing up.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abbey

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:46:38 PM EST
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Because you are viewing the 'extra kids' in terms (none / 1)

of social costs, whereas they are looking at them in terms of revenue stream potential for America's dynamic and fast-growing prison industrial complex, a recession-friendly perennial investor favorite!

one man's conspiracy is another man's business plan
Blog updated as needed

by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 01:39:02 PM EST
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Re: Because you are viewing the 'extra kids' in te (4.00 / 2)

That may be or it may be that, as I suspect, they simply don't care what happens to those kids, anymore than they care about the mothers but I want them to have to admit that -- I am so tired of these sanctimonious creeps being allowed to blather on about their moral superiority and never being forced to own up to their actual moral bankruptcy.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abbey

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 01:55:54 PM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 7)

That Rep. Susan Phillips is bad news. I googled her; here's a hit:
Susan Phillips and Jane Cunningham Bar Abortion for Incest victims

.... But Susan and Jane have a heart, although its still illegal to help such a child (and they can get an injunction against you for doing it) a father who raped his daughter at least can't get monetary damages if you assist the daughter.

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by ask on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 10:23:22 AM EST

Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 8)

Nope, I knew they wouldn't stop at banning abortion. This is a part of a vast class war on women, children, the elderly,the disabled,and all the poor, and they will not stop until every shred of the social safety net is obliterated, except for "faith based" services. That will be the only "help" left and it will be delivered in clever ways that insure only those who embrace their religion will get it, and the help allowed will be determined by what is acceptable to their religious beliefs.

And because most of this is affecting the "lowest class" with hte least voice, and won't affect anyone above it directly, there will not likely be much of an outrage or action on the part of most Anericans OR politicians. Fighting for the the lower classes is not likely to draw many copororate donations now, is it?
And when did you last see any effective political movement or marches made up of poor, pregnant women with sereral kids to take care of?

My fervant wish is that if there is a next life, all of these kinds of people come back in the skins of poor ghetto dwelling women with six kids each and no father in the home, who have to survive in the kind of hellish existance they are creating for all of us now.

ONward!

by scribe (scribe40@comcast.net) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 10:24:40 AM EST

The middle class is outraged (4.00 / 6)

at least in places like CA...

A lot of us were the working class poor that worked our way to professional jobs. At dinner last night another friend has signed on to my railway network. And she and her fiance are ready to join in campaign efforts in other states to stop this runaway train.

In UT in 1973, when I was 18, most doctors wouldn't prescribe birth control unless you were married AND your husband approved. Still that way in some areas of the state.

We just need to build our network across multiple states. We are still fighting...

by SallyCat on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 10:44:17 AM EST
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Re: The middle class is outraged (4.00 / 7)

Sorry, Sally Cat I was generalizing, which is never a good idea. I guess sitting here in the middle of the midwest, I honestly don't see that many middle class people with your passion. What I see here where I live (among lot of Bibile Belt seniors) is the same distain and prejudice against the poor I've always lived with in Minnesota. When I lived in the suburbs, it was the same deal.

Yes, I hear you about needing approval for BC. I ran into it ini a different way when, at age 43, (1983) I came up with a Class Two Pap smear. Given the history of cancer in my family, I wanted a hysterectomy. I'd had my kids, and was a partnered lesbian now.

The doctor would not agree to do it unless I brought not only my partner but my grown daughters in to meet with her as well.

ONward!

by scribe (scribe40@comcast.net) on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:13:38 AM EST
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We'll just work as a team (4.00 / 4)

If we can get the midwest and southern bloggers to feed information to us on the coasts we can give it more exposure.

The more information that crosses the state lines to us the more fight that can come back your way. Judging by the number of women on this blog in the battleground states for reproductive rights, we can get support to organizations in your area.

We are older and wiser and battle tested this time.

by SallyCat on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:19:40 AM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (none / 0)

I couldn't agree more. This is a coordinated campaign to dismantle women's rights to health care options that allow us to be fully independent human beings. For me the scariest part of this is the total lack of compassion for women and the children who are the result of unwanted pregnancies. Do we really want to force women to have babies as "punishment" for having sex? What happens to those kids? It is inhumane.

by Levana on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 05:09:44 PM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 4)

Birth Control is used only as a contraceptive???

What a bunck of bungholes.

I went on BC at age 14 so that my menstrual cycle would start and be an actual "cycle". I was very skinny which screwed up much of my body. At age 14 I weighed a whopping 70 pounds. That affected my period.

Plus it eased the pain of cramps greatly. Not as great as other methods I have now found but...

Also BC helps with cysts.

It's a war against women. Period.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:46:04 AM EST

Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 4)

Yes it is. My daughter went on the pill at 15 because without it her periods were lasting 11, 12, 13 days or more and she was always anemic and weak and tired.

These are the same people that don't want the vaccine for cervical cancer available to young girls because it will encourage promiscuous sex. They want to leave the danger in place as a deterrent.

"Don't waste your time on the clowns, watch the real show"

by Second Nature on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 11:52:49 AM EST
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Two minds (4.00 / 4)

with a single thought, SN...execept I was being a bit more ranty below... :)

Not one dollar more...

by Cali Scribe on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:07:04 PM EST
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Re: Republicans Just Say No to Birth Control (4.00 / 3)

Exactly SN. Their new motto: Let them get raped, let them get cancer and STDs.

I posted this on a hockey chat:

They rape our economy, they rape our rights and liberties, they rape our schools, they rape our veterans, our eldery and our disabled, they rape our security and safety, not just for women, minorities or gay citizens... but us all. I think the Republican party can officially be called the "Rapist Party".

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:09:01 PM EST
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I knew this was coming as well (4.00 / 4)

These are the same people that oppose the HPV vaccine, that can prevent cervical cancer, because...wait for it...they don't want to encourage girls to be promiscuous.

Don't want to encourage girls to be promiscuous.

No thought about the boys they're eventually going to be settling down and having a family with. Your daughter can be a virgin on her wedding night, as pure as the driven snow...but still end up dying of cervical cancer if she marries a guy that's a little less selective.

You're right, it's a war against women...and against minorities...and against the poor. Their whole world went upside down in the 1960s when the lower classes found that they had a voice, and they used it. They want to take us back to the time when people knew their place in society and didn't dare step out of line. They want to restore fear -- fear of the government, fear of sex, fear of God. There should always be that risk of pregnancy, of disease, because people have to live in fear of God's wrath.

Here endeth the rant...

Not one dollar more...

by Cali Scribe on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:05:45 PM EST

Re: I knew this was coming as well (4.00 / 3)

You're beautiful when you rant Cali Scribe :)

We all are when we don't remain silent.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Thu Mar 16th, 2006 at 12:11:00 PM EST
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