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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Each day gets more depressing

Posted by CIENNA MADRID on March 16 at 9:08 AM

Via Kansas City:

JEFFERSON 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.
…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.”

On the bright side, Rep. Susan Phillips does probably endorse using taxpayer funds to sew impoverished women’s vaginas shut until marriage, thereby circumventing the need for contraceptives. She isn’t a complete monster.

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link is to kansascity.com, not rawstory

Posted by Phil | March 16, 2006 9:20 AM

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"Sorry, Lenny, but I can't have sex with you tonight. Or ever! I'm too poor to afford contraception.

I mean, if I were to have a baby, I couldn't afford to feed it or take it to the hospital. Taxpayers would!

So, no, no sex for me until I get a better job. The risks are too high"

Posted by completely likely scenario | March 16, 2006 9:25 AM

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Why does the far right seem to be surprising to some people. Did you not belive it would happen when you voted for show baoat Nader/ Thanks Ralph one more time - all you dear Grennies.

By he way - thye will not just ban this stuff - they will make it criminal in some forms.

Against the law. First legal penalties against abortion - then the other issues. Defunding tax dollars is the easy part.

Remember in some of these states, there is no Democratic party of any strength any more. One party theocries already exist in American, many states.

Sad indeed.

Posted by Urba Smith | March 16, 2006 12:49 PM

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