In March of 2006, some good folks in Missouri tried to reinstate state funding for contraception for poor women. They didn't succeed.
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.
Missouristopped providing money for family planning and certain women's healthservices when Republicans gained control of both chambers of theLegislature in 2003.
The House voted 96-59 to delete the fundingfor contraception and infertility treatments after Rep. Susan Phillipstold lawmakers that anti-abortion groups such as Missouri Right to Lifewere 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.
