Missouri House Votes to Ban State Funded Birth Control

[kpete]

Low-income women would be affected
House OKs birth control funding ban
By KIT WAGAR
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondentJEFFERSON 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.”

The change was the most controversial amendment adopted during the second day of debate on next year’s state budget. The Republican majority also turned back several efforts to boost funding for health-care programs by trimming farm and agribusiness subsidies.

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

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Now their next vote should

be to expand Medicaid coverage for prenatal and newborns.

Because it is going to happen.

[FooFootheSnoo]

2. Next up

Let's ban wic, medicaid, and food stamps!!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Another brilliant move by my neighbors to the north.

[msongs]

4. get rid of all farm and agribusiness welfare! and church funding too.

not gonna happen tho because those entities kick in campaign cash.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/democratsmugs.htm

[liberal N proud]

5. Creating a perpetual cycle of poor...

Mothers having babies, babies growing up on welfare, having babies who grow up on welfare.
Do these morons think that just because they can't get birth control, the people will stop having sex?


Pay for birth control or pay for the babies, which is it going to be?

[catmandu57]

6. They're running a scorched earth policy here

They've got until the end of this year to do as much damage as possible, then we're going to remove these bastards. In three special elections democratic candidates won and handily at that. One was down in gawd and gun country, they're fucking scared because reason is going to return.

[dogday]

7. Also see this post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=675219&mesg_id=675219