The Missouri GOP has taken steps to increase the number of abortions in Missouri :

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.”

… Rep. Bob Johnson, a Lee’s Summit Republican, offered an amendment that deleted infertility treatments, but reinstated contraceptives. Most of the money, he said, would go to county health departments serving women with no alternatives to obtain health care. “If we don’t allow for contraception for low-income women, we will have more unplanned pregnancies and more pregnancies ended by abortion,” Johnson said. “No one here wants more abortions.”

… But Phillips said she was comfortable with the change because the group Missouri Right to Life and the Missouri Catholic Conference supported it.

The House held a voice vote and the amendment appeared to fail. But supporters quickly called for a roll call to put each lawmaker on record supporting or opposing Missouri Right to Life. The amendment was approved 96-59.

They are not anti-abortion: they are anti-any kind of sex whatsoever. If they were interested in stopping abortions, if they were interested in the health and welfare of the people of the state of Missouri, they would be pushing contraceptives at any and all opportunities. But they are doing just the opposite. It is more important to them that women they can control — teens and poor women — are forced to abstain or forced to have children they neither want nor can afford. The morality of this bill is disgusting.

Here is what is going to happen in Missouri, thanks to this disgusting bit of GOP handiwork. More women will be abused. Poor women will either have to abstain from sex or risk getting pregnant. Both events can be triggers to initiating physical abuse and poor women — who often stay with abusers longer for financial reasons — who are already abused will have to choose between a beating and a possible pregnancy. There will be more sexually transmitted diseases, because people will have more sex without protection. There will be more unwanted pregnancies. There will be more pregnancies by women in whom a pregnancy presents a serious health risk. There will be more abortions. The state will pay — in lives and treasure — for this bill for along time to come.

Voting for this bill is to vote for a situation that guarantees that there will be more abuse, more deaths, more serious health problems for more women, and more abortions. What a strange world we live in when people who vote for that call them selves pro-family and pro-life.