Pic Of The Moment: Republicans Admit That Family Planning Works After All

[EarlG]

Panicked Texas Republicans May Throw $100 Million Back At Women's Health

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Reality bites!

[AllyCat]

2. Inability to think ahead and plan for likely outcomes.

A function of failing education system at the hands of idiot Republicans.

[CanonRay]

3. Reality has a way of biting you right in the ass.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

28. I've been saying for years that conservatives prefer fantasy over reality

And libertarians insist on taking fantasy over reality.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Indeed!

imo:

[sheshe2]

5. By all means, repubs,

Please Proceed!

[Heather MC]

6. I am pro-choice, but this has me all twisted up

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]

8. That is probably true.

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]

11. Maybe some feel that the abomination is the suffering, even though many such babies will do well,

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]

18. I thought that 'family/women' programs concerns general family issues/and health info, not

financial aid for abortion and available for all women not just minorities. I certainly can believe many people fear raising minority birthrate.

[Heather MC]

20. it appears the fear of the raising minority birth rate is the motivation

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]

25. Perry sleeps well because he's a bigger wino than Boehner

Rick chugs some of the world's finest wine and champagne at taxpayer expense (sic).

[hobbit709]

7. They figured out that most of those unplanned pregnancies were (gasp) minorities.

[AAO]

13. Holy crap - get them off the voting rolls!

[Xipe Totec]

26. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! nt

[dynasaw]

9. Slowly, Slowly Learning Some Basic Human Biology

. . .maybe?

[tavalon]

17. Nope, already learned racism

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]

10. I question those *#$*# morans who VOTE them in

equally

if not MORE

of course, they'll VOTE them back in again and again

[Tx4obama]

12. U.S. House Republicans Propose Rolling Back Access To Birth Control To Avert Government Shutdown

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 Obamacare’s effort to expand women’s access to affordable contraception.

-snip-

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/05/1675731/house-republicans-birth-control-shutdown/

The insanity never ends!

[lark]

14. Repugs are not a fact based group.

Wishing and hoping you don't get pregnant works so very well, nothing else is needed -


except abstinence.

[AlbertCat]

23. nothing else is needed

In Repug-world the only thing they're attracted to anyway is money.

[Thinkingabout]

15. OOPS Perry and Texas republicans got it wrong but was not smart enough to realize without providing

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]

16. Xtian talking points epic fail!

[alp227]

19. BUT Slick Rick wants to copy his northeasterly neighbor with a 20 week abortion ban!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014416195

THANKFUL Perry won't be CLOSE to being a presidential candidate.

[wordpix]

21. these repukes are so stoooopid it hurts

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]

22. I can't stop laughing

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 son’s 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 anti’s) 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.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. geez...... pretty sobering. n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

24. Side note: Gov. Rick Perry still living off the Government teat, 13 years and counting...

[AnnieK401]

27. Somebody told them where babies come from.