Multipling Like Damn Rabbits
The Texas Lege is not a beacon of intelligence or even a cesspool of extra IQ points.
They got all mad at Planned Parenthood and cut funding, including funding for birth control. Then a strange thing happened. People started having more babies.
This was not a predictable outcome in the mind of the average Texas Republican, which is kinda surprising considering how much they like to talk about hoochy. You think maybe at some point all their sex talk would eventually come to the relationship between sex and getting pregnant. Obviously, not in this century. On the other hand, we’re just barely into this century.
Republican state Sen. Bob Duell said that the government should not be involved in family planning, “But you have to look at what happens if we don’t.”
My goodness. He noticed.
But he did have kinda an unfair advantage. He’s a medical doctor. We do not know what he did with the money his Momma gave him to go to medical school, but he obviously slept through the human reproduction part because he missed the connection the first time around and voted to defund family planning.
Now it’s gonna be up to Bob to go explain all this to Rick in real delicate terms because Rick might have to back down, too.
A spokesperson for Gov. Rick Perry would not state a firm position either way on the debate, only stating, “Every two years we take a fresh look at our resources and our needs.”
Yep, every election time we decide who to kiss up and who to piss off.
So, the way I see it, you guys have to stop with the hoochy koochy. It makes babies. The Republicans don’t like you have sex or babies. They want you to be all frustrated and mean, like them.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Yeah, and how’s that abstinence only sex education working for ya…? They can’t pray away the gay, and they cannot pray away a pregnancy. The Flat Earth Society is gonna have to wake up and smell the coffee.
1… or wake up and smell the diapers. Who was it said “legislators and babies should be changed regularly, and for the same reason”?
2Richard: that sounds like a Mark Twain, and if HE didn’t say it….at least SOMEONE held his nose and spoke the truth.
3‘The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.’
4Will Rogers
It really makes you wonder what Perry and the Lege expected would happen. We all knew providing birth control was much cheaper than providing services for pregnant women and new babies, but would they listen? No, they are blinded by hatred and stupidity.
5Best way to prevent abortions? Make birth control free and readily available. Studies back this up. It’s been suggested that Obama, by doing just that, has prevented more abortions than any of the rightwingers.
6Look, it is Texas, it is the Texas legislators, and they don’t understand the birds and the bees… Sounds like someone there needs an education…in biology. Wonder how they would like getting ‘cut off’ by their spouses. Oh, wait, they can’t..(at least the guys can’t) because a wife submits to her husband… Dang, all I do is keep going in circles and getting nowhere…
7It’s not that they discourage babies; republicans merely discourage sex; somehow believing in aesexual conception. in their lexicon sex is bad and babies are good.
8Sounds like perfectly fine Repug math to me, cut $73M then spend $213M because there are consequences. Oops!
9Why is this suddenly a problem for them? Because the people who rely on these services, and the ones who now will be having more babies, are NOT having babies who will grow up and vote Republican. The problem is not a higher birth rate. It’s a higher birth rate among po’ folk, like Messkins and blacks.
10Actually, the birth rate is declining, although not as fast as the fertility rate, and someone wrote those rates were even lower for immigrants.
11http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/births_fertility_june_2012/births_june_2012.html