WOMEN ON BIRTH CONTROL COULD NOT BE BARRED FROM WORKING, ACCORDING TO NEW MISSOURI BILL

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek


BY MIRREN GIDDA ON 6/29/17 AT 5:32 PM



Contrary to news reports, a controversial new bill in Missouri does not attempt to allow employers to discriminate against women who used birth control, the governor's spokesman told Newsweek Thursday.

The bill, SB 5, would, among other things, impose tighter restrictions on abortion providers and allow real estate agents to refuse to sell or rent them land. The bill would also allow “alternatives to abortion agencies”—a term that includes places that encourage women to carry their babies to term—to function without the risk of political restriction.

What it would not do is bar women on birth control from working. The impact of the bill was erroneously reported last week by Newsweek, Bustle, the Associated Press and Feministing. The bill was widely misinterpreted to include measures that made reproductive health care decisions a criteria for employers, but focused primarily on abortion providers and alternative agencies.

The confusion began after Missouri’s governor, Eric Greitens, recalled the state legislature for a special session “to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and protect women's health.” In a Facebook Live video explaining his decision, Greitens referred to “a new city law making St. Louis an abortion sanctuary city,” one in which, he said, pro-abortion pregnancy care centers were under attack.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/missouri-abortion-sb-5-crisis-pregnancy-centers-630165?piano_t=1

[geretogo]

1. Since the Rethugs want to return to the middle ages I wonder if witch burning

will still be allowed .

[workinclasszero]

4. Oh no the republican barbarian horde will use the more humane dunking method

That's the one where if the accused witch/democrat/liberal drowns they were innocent and if they survive the ordeal they are guilty and burned at the stake.

[Shell_Seas]

5. Just give it time.

[Matthew28]

2. The republican party wants to turn America into a medievil religious fascist state

[Lulu KC]

3. Wake me when it's over--will it ever be over???

The headlines. They just keep getting harder and harder for me to comprehend. Or believe. Or process. Or something.

[Hortensis]

6. Hey, be brave! It's 2018-season already, and the worse they are, the better.

Those who didn't vote, whether from apathy or swallowing the Kool-Aid that both parties are bad, needed some extra kicks in their butts to get them to the polls. We only need maybe another 5-10% of the huge numbers who did not. Those who care enough to call themselves "independents" are waking up, and the GOP support among them is dropping.

Of course, hard-core right-wing voters, and most of their moderates also, do vote and have basically lost their minds. They normally only watch RW media that are hiding this stuff, or distorting it out of reality. But even they sometimes get real information through leaks in their bubbles, and we can expect them to become more anxious and demoralized over time. We only need them to vote in fewer numbers.

So when I hear Republican extremists have done things like this, I smile. Grimly, but I am glad to see it. We have to stop them before they get strong control of SCOTUS and also do another 7 years of what is so hard to take in half of one. But revealing what they really are to the nation is very dangerous for them, and boy don't McConnell and Ryan know it.

[Lulu KC]

7. Excellent points

Thank you. Tatooing inside eyelids to remember.