Tax dollars have paid for bullets, death penalty chemicals and probably more than a few hookers. Squeamishness about birth control funding is rather amusing.
Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006
Low-income women would be affected House OKs birth control funding ban
By Kit Wagar
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
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.
Critics jumped on the proposal, saying it would lead to more abortions and more unwanted children on welfare.
But 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.”
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