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By NYBri
03/16/2006 12:55:08 PM EST

In a full frontal assault on the Woman's Rights Movement, Missouri Republicans have stripped funds for birth control from its budget. Birth control pioneer, Margaret Sanger (left), must be turning in her grave.

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.

The House voted 96-59 to delete the funding for contraception and infertility treatments after Rep. Susan Phillips told lawmakers that anti-abortion groups such as Missouri Right to Life were opposed to the spending.

"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.

They are attempting to legislate health care and personal choice in the name of morality. Red State Government at its finest.


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Sigh... (none / 0)
I'm 40. A woman who was blessed enough to have inherited a certain type of America following the struggles of women who came before her. I don't have children of my own; but, I have nieces. I grow cold thinking of the world they're growing up in. It's foreign to the one I was blessed to have come of age in.

Thanks for this info, Bri...we need to fight these people back. This is not the America we inherited, and it's not an America worth passing on to future generations.

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by ilona on 03/17/2006 01:19:55 AM EST

so much has changed.... (none / 1)
...the battles of the past aren't appreciated or taught and, as a result, will have to be fought again and again.

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by NYBri on 03/17/2006 08:27:58 AM EST

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I doubt Sanger is rolling in her grave (none / 0)
Except Sanger was a Maltheusian and only advocated birth control as a means of population control.  Those who were thought in need of "population control" were usually poor immigrants.  

Quiet women rarely make history

by alyx on 03/19/2006 11:12:23 PM EST

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