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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,629 posts)AllyCat
(16,189 posts)A function of failing education system at the hands of idiot Republicans.
CanonRay
(14,104 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)And libertarians insist on taking fantasy over reality.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)imo:
sheshe2
(83,787 posts)Please Proceed!
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)By agreeing to fund women's health again, they are admitting they don't want a bunch minorities having babies. They are doing this strictly for population control of poor people.
What about their staunch belief that all life is a sacred gift from God. I guess a true gift would be free and the state wouldn't have to foot the bill.
Therefore, these babies must be abominations which makes Abortion ok again.
yeah, still going to heaven that was close wasn't it Jesus!
I am guessing that is how Rick Perry sleeps at night
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)But the bottom line is the women of Texas have a choice - even the poor ones. And that is always a good thing, regardless of motives.
patrice
(47,992 posts)the suffering of even a small fraction does not justify a benefit to anyone else, budget or otherwise, and suffering can be exploited.
So the BC allows protection for at least some of those potential lives, while at the same time allowing anyone of any race to have a baby if they choose to.
The original (Cardinal Bernardin) pro-life standard on this was that the sanctity of life is not respected by simply regarding it as a commodity, of which more, high numbers of lives, is better. If one/each life is not respected to the fullest, more lives don't change that and become respected simply by an increase in something of which one instance is not valuable in and of itself.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)financial aid for abortion and available for all women not just minorities. I certainly can believe many people fear raising minority birthrate.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)for bringing the funding back. not necessarily minority but poor welfare dependant minorities. as i said they must have decided true gifts from God don't cost any money, so it's ok to curb the growth rate of potential welfare babies. They can't possibly be God's Gifts. Rick Perry's alleged thoughts not mine.
Look it's one thing to offer services for women to be able to make those choices, and have proper care and dignified care when making these decisions. It just something slimy about a group of people deciding another group is breeding too much so now let's bring those services back.
Gabby Hayes
(289 posts)Rick chugs some of the world's finest wine and champagne at taxpayer expense (sic).
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)dynasaw
(998 posts). . .maybe?
tavalon
(27,985 posts)And it isn't just the blacks in Texas having babies, it's the "mexis". Tried and true racism, but as someone else said, while the motives may be shit, the result is more choice for everyone, so.....
Amonester
(11,541 posts)equally
if not MORE
of course, they'll VOTE them back in again and again
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)House Republicans Propose Rolling Back Access To Birth Control To Avert Government Shutdown
In order to avert a government shutdown later this month, Congress and the Obama administration must negotiate a continuing resolution to maintain federal funding and a group of House Republicans is suggesting that deal should also roll back Obamacares effort to expand womens access to affordable contraception.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/05/1675731/house-republicans-birth-control-shutdown/
The insanity never ends!
lark
(23,105 posts)Wishing and hoping you don't get pregnant works so very well, nothing else is needed -
except abstinence.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)In Repug-world the only thing they're attracted to anyway is money.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Birth control the birth rates was going to rise. Oh, BTW, probably did not believe in abortion so now they will pay to assist those who did not earn enough money to provide for these children. Now it is time for those so against abortion to realize they will be paying to care for children whose parents are not making enough money to care for the children properly. It is time for those against abortion and birth control to put their money where their mouth is. It cost to be the boss.
Initech
(100,080 posts)alp227
(32,027 posts)THANKFUL Perry won't be CLOSE to being a presidential candidate.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)How many poor women/teenagers got pregnant who didn't want or intend it, thanks to Slick Rick and the R's stupidity on this issue?
The Flaming Red Head
(1,805 posts)They finally figured out the connection.
I wish they would fund family planning in Arkansas and Louisiana. Some of these little girls are running around here with 4 or 5 kids and they're not even out of their early 20s and have as many daddies as kiddies. .
We went to family planning clinics for birth control, to confirm pregnancy's we would later to decide to keep and for our right to choose and for cheap Pap Smears. They did a whole host healthcare services for women.
I support choice and family planning. Some of these kids (young women) in my sons generation don't have the resources or even the education about resources that we had just 20 years ago. I feel so sorry for them.
I've tried to explain to my son and his friends that most so called pro-lifers are against birth control pills, too because they call them abortifactants and believe that most forms of birth control are the same as abortion.
They (the anti-choicers and the religious right) will probably rain hell down on these Republicans for doing this.
They (the fanatical antis) won't stop at closing clinics; they think anything that prevents conception or stops it is interfering with god's plan and they want rape babies carried to term and babies born of incest. They (Operation Rescue) passed out a pamphlet that claimed that a baby of incest would bring the family closer together.
I know of one of the Operation Rescues leaders named Carmouche who said that we didn't need birth control because you could fit every man, woman, and child on the earth inside the state of Texas. (I wonder how these Texas Republicans would feel about that.)
Carmouche also said that all of us environmentalist were of the anti-Christ.