House rejects spending for birth control (Missouri)

[TomInTib]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An attempt to resume state spending on birth control got shot down Wednesday by House members who argued it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles.
Missouri stopped providing money for family planning and certain women's health services when Republicans gained control of both chambers of the Legislature in 2003.
But a Democratic lawmaker, in a little-noticed committee amendment, had successfully inserted language into the proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that would have allowed part of the $9.2 million intended for "core public health functions" to go to contraception provided through public health clinics.

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"If you hand out contraception to single women, we're saying promiscuity is OK as a state, and I am not in support of that," Phillips, R-Kansas City, said in an interview.

more:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14098907.htm

[shoelace414]

1. without bith control, people won't have sex

didn't you know that?

(do I really need the :sarcasm: tag?)

[katty]

2. but...please pass me the Viagra!

[BOSSHOG]

3. Missouri has some godawful wack jobs in their legislature

They also want to make christianity the official state religion.

What's next, an allocation to build ovens around the state to get rid of undesireables?

Yo Phillips of Kansas City, hormones result in promiscuity not pills. The upcoming avalanche of poor kids your state will end up taking care of will prove my point - bitch! You need a weekend in a motel room with a college boy to straighten out that hateful attitude of yours.

[Warpy]

4. Phillips needs to mind his own fucking business

He can't control women he doens't know. My guess is he's piss poor at controlling women he does know.

We really need a way to get these pious asshats out of office quickly.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Got that backwards. He wants to control women he doesn't know

because the women he does know refuse to be controlled. This asshat married? Does his wife use birth control? His sisters? His daughters?

He has no right to control women he knows OR doesn't know.