Not pro-Life, anti-Life
by KevinMarch 16th, 2006
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.
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Kevin: Poor women will either have to abstain from sex or risk getting pregnant.
Fred: What a concept! The idea that people should be responsible for their own behavior and choices is certainly an out-dated concept. Government should pay for the life choices of people. Everyone knows that people can’t control their actions.
Choice 1: Distribute birth control, have to deal with slight discomfort of know that somewhere there is some humping I disapprove of that is far less likley to result in an unwanted pregnancy that I as a taxpayer would end up partially paying for.
Choice 2: Make birth control more difficult to get for the most disadvantaged members of society, humping will still take place, but will probably result in a pregnancy that is aborted, or a child that must be subsidized by me in some fashion. However I do get to feel moraly smug that the female half of said humpers now is suffering the natural consequences of her actions.
Hmmm
I’ll have to think about this.
I typed too fast and forgot some commas, D’OH!
Sorry.
Many health problems are caused by stress. Time from work is lost and some stressed out people abuse others. Crimes have been committed by people under stress. I think the government should pay for all vacations and at least one day a week at a spa. Imagine how much more productive people could be. Their added productivity might even help to offset the extra taxes needed to pay for the Department of Vacations and Spas.
Kevin: they are anti-any kind of sex whatsoever
Fred: Your lies cheapen your post. I can assure you that my four children weren’t brought by the stork.
Fred, believe it or not, there are people out in the world who have no concept of self-control, self-responsibility, basic health or hygiene, or anything else. Some of the polis want to apply their own values on them, but it’s like arguing with cow dung. Government coddling of there people isn’t so much coddling as it is preventative measures.
You don’t get people to be responsible by coddling them. Coddling them only leads to more and more irresponsible behavior.
To paraphrase Fred, let’s bring back public flogging.
But what problem do you want to address? Sex that Christian Fundamentalists don’t approve of? the number of people having abortions? Is this measure going to change the culture? Will you vote for higher taxes to pay for the extra child welfare folks who will eventually be involved in this childs life?
I simply do want to pay the finiancial and social costs of more kids with parents who lack the financial means to raise them. The notion that humping may be taking place outside of wedlock does not bother me nearly as much as a policy designed to increase poverty, abortion, and the sum total human misery in the world.
And that’s excatly what it is.
Keeps women in their place, at home barefoot. Also helps control the gay population, with unprotected anal sex. Now if we just could figure out how the repugnicunts reproduce!
rMatey, your mother must be so proud.
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