Steve King Strikes Again, Says Birth Control Coverage Will End Civilization

[MountainLaurel]

Who knew that little pink pill would help me end civilization?

Watch Steve King rant against insurance coverage for birth control, claiming we will become a "dying civilization."

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/643929/steve_king_strikes_again%2C_says_birth_control_coverage_will_end_civilization/

[theophilus]

1. It MIGHT end civilization as HE wants it. n/t

[marmar]

2. If only Mama and Papa King had used it.......

nt

[dembotoz]

3. what a knob

[City Lights]

4. Idiot USer. eom

[drm604]

5. He should stick to writing horror novels.

I know. That's a different person. I just couldn't resist. Interesting that he shares his name with an author who writes about things like the end of civilization.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. An author who cares about people, donates a lot of his money for community projects, and who

is a staunch political liberal. Couldn't be more different from that other guy. Definitely funny. :D

[drm604]

14. Oh they're absolutely different.

Steven King the author is a good guy. I hope it didn't sound like I was implying otherwise.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Oh no, not at all! Being a Mainer, I just wanted to help you highlight the differences as

fully as possible. :D

[Yavin4]

6. So, He Supports Increasing Aid to Children?

More money for healthcare and education for children? Right?

[hifiguy]

7. How the hell do people this monumentally stoopid

even survive to adulthood? This gomer has never shown that he has the sense to get off the tracks when a train is bearing down on him.

[Faygo Kid]

8. That rant was not only racist, it was a call to ban contraceptives altogether.

He spent way more time on the evils of contraception generally than on the government mandate. A race that won't reproduce itself?

That guy is a dangerous demagogue. Yeah, he's a joke, but he's also a demagogue, like Beck.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. I would argue that access to healthcare and birth control *preserve* civilization

Women becoming ill due to lack of access to healthcare - for whatever reason - is definitely UNcivilized. So is the attempt to force women to bear children against their will, which for many women leads to economic servitude. These so-called 'Christians' are the ones who need civilizin'!

[ladywnch]

10. how else will they be able to keep women barefoot and pregnant

and home if we keep allowing abortion and birth control. You people are missing the real goal here.

[LiberalLoner]

11. Religious extremism. Fundamentalists of all stripes are now trying their best to

outlaw education for women, and outlaw contraception.

The next step is probably making pregnancies mandatory for all women from age 12 on, with artificial insemination if required. Those who were born infertile will be executed upon failure to provide a baby to the fatherland.

Edited to add: This will apply to white women only, of course. We only want the "right" kind of children to be born. (Sarcasm)

[dgibby]

18. Bingo!

It's all about the demographics with theses racist asswipes. They're scared shitless that whites in this country are going to be in the minority soon. As a white person, I can only hope it happens sooner rather than later. Time to give someone else a chance. We've done more than enough damage, both here and abroad.

Poetic justice for him would be when he dies and goes to meet his maker, he's greeted by a black woman! I'd pay to see that.

[LiberalLoner]

20. Please read my post below about General Officers...n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Really? Civilization will die out? *shakes head*

[BlueDemKev]

15. People like Steve King make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

[lapislzi]

17. Translation: white people aren't breeding enough

The brown people are breeding too much. The white people are losing their edge. Darn.

[LiberalLoner]

19. This is EXACTLY the message and this is being preached to General Officers in the military

I can tell you that my husband and his colleagues was fed this right-wing bullshit during his time in the Army War College (school for Colonesl and Generals).

All the top leadership of the military is being fed this message, or at least was even just a couple of years ago. Being told, "this is how you are supposed to think - the brown people (Muslims) are outbreeding us and therefore we are losing - support ways to make white women have more babies so we will win the war."

I was very alarmed that our top military leaders are being asked to do something about "this problem."

[dgibby]

21. Talibornagains are taking over the military.

One of my commanding officers would treat you like crap if you weren't a member of his denomination.

[LiberalLoner]

22. Yup, and it's very dangerous. I really fear for the future of our nation. n/t

[CTyankee]

23. Then King must think that immigration in this country should be fostered

and not prevented?

There are our replacements...

[tanyev]

24. So...he's admitting that abstinence-only doesn't work?

That the reason many Republicans support it is not because of their delicate moral sensibilities, but because it guarantees that lots of (white) American babies will be conceived?

Would he be more comfortable with a policy that prevented white women with white male partners from using birth control, but freely gave it away to anyone else? I wonder.

[Skidmore]

25. His parents should have used it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. OMG. Birth Control pills were legalized in 1960! Does he have any clue how many babies have been

born since then??? MILLIONS, UPON MILLIONS! Give me a fucking break. What an idiot.