Senator Jim DeMint wants to raise birth control prices as much as 900% for college women

[cynatnite]

Anti-contraception Senator Jim DeMint moved this week to increase birth control prices as much as 900% for college women. You'd think the Senator, who professes to be against abortion, would want to make contraception as accessible as possible for women in college since they're the demographic with the highest rate of unintended pregnancy and the highest rate of abortion. College women typically don't have much income and are also disproportionately likely to be uninsured; it's not the pool of people you want to force to "splurge" if they want to use protection. "We do know that high fees act as a barrier to obtaining care. That is classically understood in campus health services," explained Claudia Covello, director at the University of California-Berkeley's health center, to Time magazine.

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When Prevention First legislation was introduced in the Senate it consisted of proposals that would improve access to contraception. And yet it was referred to by contraception opponents as an "abortion bailout." When the stimulus package included a simple budget-neutral provision to streamline state billing procedures for contraceptive services, the Family Research Council called it a "political payoff". Now, DeMint through an amendment hopes to remove the Affordable Birth Control Act, which requires no expenditure but simply reinstates college health centers and other safety net clinics back into the discounted drug pricing program. The polemic decoration DeMint uses is that lowering the cost of birth control for college age women is an "earmark" for Planned Parenthood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-page/a-deminted-attack-on-coll_b_172641.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Fuck that worthless sucker of Satan's cock

That is all.

[gratuitous]

2. And let me guess

He'd make birth control pills a free part of the formulary for Medicare for women over 65?

Come on, South Carolina; can't you do any better than this by the Senate and your fellow United States?

[ddeclue]

7. As James L. Petigru once said....

James L. Petigru (1789-1863), a staunch South Carolina unionist, ... saying that his state was too small for a country and too large for an insane asylum

[WI_DEM]

3. I bet he never got any in college (if he went to college)

[Demobrat]

9. He certainly never got anybody pregnant.

I wonder how he'd feel about being forced to pay child support for 18 years for a kid he didn't want.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Okay, fine. Then I'd like to ban all "boner" pills.

These assholes drive me crazy. Try like mad to prevent women from access to birth control on the one hand, and on the other, things like Cialis and Viagra are practically given out like candy to men.

Fucking misogynistic assholes.

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[movonne]

20. This is a way of keeping women un-educated...barefoot and pregie...

[ddeclue]

5. You don't understand - he doesn't WANT them in college...

he wants them bare foot pregnant and in the kitchen at home.

He's a neanderthal tali-Baptist of the first order - he doesn't wan them to have abortion rights, he doesn't want them to have contraception choice.

He gives jackasses a bad name.

Doug D.

[Metta]

6. Sure, then he can crusade against abortion. Happy karma, Jim.

I see you don't care that you inherit part of the suffering you cause. ... don't pack the warm clothes.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Could South Carolina elect anybody meaner, more arrogant, or more ignorant than DeMint?

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. delete

[Are_grits_groceries]

12. Yes, apparently we can...

Governors, who actually have to govern, are generally less extreme than members of legislatures. Jim DeMint, the fanatic senator from South Carolina is the worst extremist in the Senate. His state's governor, Mark Sanford, is nearly as extreme-- and probably the most extremist governor in the nation. In this case we can be grateful for term limits inasmuch as we probably won't have to hear any of Sanford's hypocritical bullcrap after that. There is one drawback-- it looks like his successor will be even worse!

This morning the most radical right member of South Carolina's House delegation, Gresham Barrett, announced that he would like to run for governor. His district, SC-03, takes up most of the western counties of the state, bordering on Georgia, from Aiken in the south to Pickens in the north. While Barrett won re-election in November with 65%, McCain had almost the same percentage (64) against Obama in the district, when has a PVI of R+14-- much better than he did statewide (54%). It's pretty much the reddest part of the state-- a bizarre area where people still have a chip on their collective shoulder about Yankees, alienated from America and from the most vibrant currents of contemporary culture and thought.

Barrett's closest comrade in the House is another radical wingnut, Mike Pence-- who has been blabbering all over today about how he, like Limbaugh, absolutely wants Obama to fail. No one has to ask Barrett. He hates blacks-- and was one of only 33 members of Congress to vote against renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also hates gays; he hates unions; he hates taxes; he hates peaceniks; he loves nuclear energy.

South Carolina has an even worse unemployment problem than the rest of the U.S. so an anti-working family fanatic like Barrett is the last thing in the world the state needs. His primary opponent is likely to be a mainstream conservative ally of John McCain's and Lindsey Graham's, Attorney General Henry McMaster. Barrett will probably beat him in a primary where it's impossible to be too far to the right.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/03/far-right-extremists-gresham-barrett-sc.html

[AndyTiedye]

14. Is there a Democratic Party in South Carolina?

…or is it all wingnuts, all the time?

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. Yes, but it has

been controlled by a cabal who are inept and ineffective. I wonder if they don't have some "agreement" with the Rs. A lot of the local Dems and even elected ones do the best they can despite what happens.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Barrett is my Congressman

A useless piece of shit if there ever was one. The real irony is that this homophobe holds Miss Lindsay's former seat. I'm not surprised that he's planning to run for governor. He's a relative nobody in Congress at the moment: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/power_card.tt?id=7965

[indepat]

11. Should the dicks of the likes of the Jim DeMints of the world be excised,

that would seem to be beneficial on so many levels. :P

Edited to add the

[Ikonoklast]

13. Demented wants those that have premarital sex to be punished.

If they can't control the sexuality of ohters, then they want to punish them in any way that they can.

Unmarried and pregnant? We'll force you to have a kid, give you nothing to help, hope you live in poverty, and feel smug about it on Sunday because we're morally superior to you because you had sex.

[elleng]

15. They've been 'trying' to institute

JUST SAY NO forever, so they can replay The Scarlet Letter, and feel MORE superior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter

[Ardent15]

16. Asshole.

[BreweryYardRat]

17. Damn fundamentalists.

Best proof for the existence of Satan I've ever seen.

If DeMint had a shred of integrity, honor, or actual humanity, he'd kill himself.