I’ll take it a step further. Let’s offer a $500 a year cash bonus to any woman on public assistance who has Norplant or other persistent contraception installed for an entire year, and who does not become pregnant or give birth at any time during that year. That oughta take care of the whozyababyzdaddy problem.

Nick,

You sound like one of those men who would arrange a wrangler (stand-in) to take a paternity test using some corrupt GAL to get you through the court process beating the system. Do you have any children out there who will be wondering who my daddy is because of something like this? Just asking, it does happen.

If Obama wants to win in Missouri, he should distance himself from Planned Parenthood.

That was a nasty slur, D. Walker. WWJD? Or perhaps more relevant, WWBOD?

Now to answer your question … wrong. I have never impregnated a woman who was not my wife. I have therefore never been the subject of a paternity suit. And, so far as the children of my ex-wife goes, she gets a rather nice paycheck every month, and I’d be glad to show you my current “paid in full” receipt.

Now about those mamas … I stand by my proposal, for a $500 a year bonus to any woman on public assistance who has some form of persistent contraception installed for an entire year, and who does not become pregnant or give birth at any time during that year. Why do you so object to this, D. Walker? Do you think providing single moms on welfare a cash incentive to not have more children is EVIL? Seems like you’d think having 2 babies by 2 daddies who don’t pay a cent of child support between ‘em, and sitting around collecting a welfare check while scheming how to get pregnant with your 3rd, would be evil.

Whose using nasty slurs, Nick? You’re the one spewing misogynist stereotypes about low-income women. Paying women to do what you want them to do with their bodies and families is certainly not the least offensive thing I’ve read today.

The reason people have unplanned pregnancies is because they can’t afford contraception (Norplant ain’t cheap, my friend). And here in the great state of Missouri, Medicaid won’t cover it, which is precisely what Planned Parenthood is talking about.

So why don’t you keep your bribe money, and just get behind the people who are trying to help the women who are trying not to get pregnant again. Paying for basic health care up front is cheaper than the alternative.

Dem Voter, a box of condoms is about the cost of a box of cigarettes. The reason people have unplanned pregnancies is because they are STUPID. It takes two to tango (usually). If the guy isn’t using a condom, the woman better be using a contraceptive of some sort.

Once again, it goes to personal responsibility..something democrats just HATE. Democrats want the GOVERNMENT to be responsible for them…so Nick, I think they should WANT the government to help them be responsible AND give them the handouts they so desperately love. I would vote for the anti-pregnancy donation of $500 also.

Perhaps if we just wish that people will have personal responsibility, they will!

Republicans are into private handouts and Democrats are into public handouts.

Repblicans helping the few by padding their wallets (corporate bailouts, rich pay less % tax than poor) while Democrats help many by padding their standard of living (WIC, S-8).

Somewhere in the middle we have our current state of government.

Sometimes spending a nickel saves a dime. it’s all very scary.

Andrew care to enlighten us how the rich pay less as a % in taxes? That’s even crazier than a Garrison post.

The last time I checked, keeping your legs closed was completely free.

Planned Parenthood, the abortion mill that accepts money for the expressed purpose of aborting black babies doing business at campaign rallies for a candidate with a small percentage of African American heritage. Oh the irony.

Nick,

Tell us the average number of children a woman who recieves welfare has.

Then tell us how long a woman can receive welfare over a life-time here in Missouri?

Research these things before you begin displaying your stupid foolish prejudices.

Pay for birth control now and then pay for breast cancer treatment 20 years down the road.

The comment by Ms. Freeman that a working woman has to choose between her childcare and her birth control angers me. So we the people should have to pay for her birth control? I don’t think so, perhaps this working mother should make the choice to be responsible and not have sex.
Not to mention that families have plenty of access to preventative care, the problem is too many people choose not to do it or ignore what their doctors say. When are people in this country going to start taking responsibility for themselves instead of depending on the government to do everything, that’s not what the government was designed to do.

Ask Sen. Obama why he discriminates against a whole class of people - pre-born babies. His extremist abortion views say that a living human being of any gestational age can be dismembered and destroyed for any reason whatsoever including lifestyle. When he supports the greatest killer of children in America especially Black babies in disproportionate numbers, we shouldn’t trust anything else he says on any other issue. Why he would want to be in bed with a racist eugenicist organization like Planned Parenthood is beyond me. Margaret Sanger, PP’s founder, has a well documented history of this.

Planned Parenthood and the contraceptive culture act as though condoms are a panacea. Condoms are only 85% effective against pregnancy in typical use (Consumer Reports Feb. 2005). In the same article, Planned Parenthood’s condoms were the worst performing ones. Condoms are not effective against all sexually transmitted diseases. The HIV virus is 5 microns in size. Condoms have holes 100 microns in size. They don’t protect against HPV which only needs skin to skin contact for transmission. I could go on with more examples, but the point is that condoms give people false assurances. They should be printed with a warning label.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider. They try to promote themselves as a health care organization, but very few abortions are done for the health of the mother or baby. Planned Parenthood is just setting up young people to need their contraceptive and abortion services. They sexualize children at a young age (just look at their pornographic teenwire website). When kids become sexually active as a result, they throw condoms and contraceptives at them. When these fail, they sell abortions to them. Slick. It is all part of the “free love” failed sexual revolution mentality. I would not trust Planned Parenthood with my body. They were also caught over billing the state of California for their services.

Doesn’t it make more sense in this economy to help struggling families by providing food, and daycare instead of paying for birth control or abortions which are morally wrong to many taxpayers? This would actually benefit more struggling families…everyone needs to eat, some need daycare, but not all choose to use birth control and should not be viewed as irresponsible for choosing to bring life into this world. If we’re truly concerned about their needs, let’s address what people truly need and not just what will benefit Planned Parenthood!

Let’s see. Every scientific study on the matter has shown that women who are educated about birth control options and have access to those options have fewer children, healthier children, and children for whom they can provide. Women who lack borth control options and the education for using them have more unwanted pregnancies which leads to the double spectre of more abortions and more women needing government assistance to raise their children. Why is this even a debate?

But let’s take this further. The problem isn’t with the women spreading their legs, it’s with the men trying to get between them. So let’s build on Nick’s idea and offer $500 flat to every man, regardless of economic status, who gets a vasectomy, and make vasectomies mandatory for every man over the age of forty and/or who has fathered two children. Heck, just make vasectomies mandatory for all men and Planned Parenthood would go out of business tomorrow. Fertility doctors can still retrieve sperm directly from the testes via a large-bore needle, so women could still be inseminated if they wanted to get pregnant, and in the meantime, no more unplanned pregnancies. It’d be perfect.