Kansas Gov. Brownback: ‘Go work somewhere else’ if you want contraception
10:24 pm - 02/27/2012
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has a simple solution for women who work for religious institutions that refuse to cover birth control: Find a new job.
During a call-in show on C-SPAN Monday morning, a woman named Doris from Osawatomie, Kansas told Brownback that she was worried that he wanted to turn back the clock on women’s rights.
“No, goodness,” Brownback replied. “That’s not true.”
“I am concerned that — along with lots of other red states — Gov. Brownback feels that we should be the reddest state in the country,” Doris explained. “Women’s rights are being trampled. He was talking about what President Obama is requiring insurance companies to do, to cover birth control. You know you are taking away the individual woman’s right to decide if they need birth control.”
“Ninety-eight percent of women have used birth control in their lives,” she added. “Now, we can pay for vasectomies, we can pay for Viagra, but we cannot pay for birth control for women? I think it’s a shame.”
Brownback immediately disagreed.
“What the president basically said is if you are church that does not believe in this — and the Catholic Church has problems with, the official Catholic Church, amongst other institutions, have problems with paying for contraceptives,” the Kansas governor explained. “You have a number of religious groups who saying, ‘We don’t want to pay for so-called abortifacients, these have morning after pill-type effects. And this is against our religious beliefs.’ And the president was saying, ‘You got to pay for it.’ And they were saying, ‘This is against our view life is sacred.’”
“That’s not denying women’s rights,” he insisted. “If a woman then wants birth control, go work somewhere else.”
A coalition of rights groups including Planned Parenthood, MainStream Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union recently criticized Brownback for an “assault on women’s health.”
“In 2011, 5 bills limiting access to abortion services and affordable contraception were passed by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Governor Brownback and the legislature spent over 25 public hours on these bills,” MainStream Coalition board member Gail James said in a media advisory. “This divisive social agenda does not reflect the values or priorities of the majority of Kansans.”
For his part, Brownback on Monday denied wanting to limit the rights of women.
“Having three very good, strong daughters that are doing quite well, I — and I want them to have every opportunity and every possibility in this country and they’re going to have it,” he said.
video of his comments at the source
During a call-in show on C-SPAN Monday morning, a woman named Doris from Osawatomie, Kansas told Brownback that she was worried that he wanted to turn back the clock on women’s rights.
“No, goodness,” Brownback replied. “That’s not true.”
“I am concerned that — along with lots of other red states — Gov. Brownback feels that we should be the reddest state in the country,” Doris explained. “Women’s rights are being trampled. He was talking about what President Obama is requiring insurance companies to do, to cover birth control. You know you are taking away the individual woman’s right to decide if they need birth control.”
“Ninety-eight percent of women have used birth control in their lives,” she added. “Now, we can pay for vasectomies, we can pay for Viagra, but we cannot pay for birth control for women? I think it’s a shame.”
Brownback immediately disagreed.
“What the president basically said is if you are church that does not believe in this — and the Catholic Church has problems with, the official Catholic Church, amongst other institutions, have problems with paying for contraceptives,” the Kansas governor explained. “You have a number of religious groups who saying, ‘We don’t want to pay for so-called abortifacients, these have morning after pill-type effects. And this is against our religious beliefs.’ And the president was saying, ‘You got to pay for it.’ And they were saying, ‘This is against our view life is sacred.’”
“That’s not denying women’s rights,” he insisted. “If a woman then wants birth control, go work somewhere else.”
A coalition of rights groups including Planned Parenthood, MainStream Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union recently criticized Brownback for an “assault on women’s health.”
“In 2011, 5 bills limiting access to abortion services and affordable contraception were passed by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Governor Brownback and the legislature spent over 25 public hours on these bills,” MainStream Coalition board member Gail James said in a media advisory. “This divisive social agenda does not reflect the values or priorities of the majority of Kansans.”
For his part, Brownback on Monday denied wanting to limit the rights of women.
“Having three very good, strong daughters that are doing quite well, I — and I want them to have every opportunity and every possibility in this country and they’re going to have it,” he said.
video of his comments at the source
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Edited at 2012-02-28 05:28 am (UTC)
Well it won't embed so here it is. FEATURING RON SWANSON.
The fact that religious groups don't understand reproductive biology should not be my problem.
And this is against our religious beliefs.’
Your religious beliefs don't get to impact my health care decisions.
And the president was saying, ‘You got to pay for it.’
Good on him! You want to be an employer (especially if, like many schools and hospitals, you receive government funds), you get to play by the rules the state sets for employers.
And they were saying, ‘This is against our view life is sacred.’”
Should a JW school, hospital, or other organization be able to refuse to cover blood transfusions? No? Fuck yourself.
“That’s not denying women’s rights,” he insisted.
Yeah. Yeah it is.
“If a woman then wants birth control, go work somewhere else.”
So first it's, "Get a job!" Then it was, "Get a ~real~ job!" Now it's, "Get a different job!" What next?
"Go back to the kitchen!"
Hulk smash!! Morning after pill-type effects like blocking or delaying ovulation or increases/thinkens cervical mucus... none of those are going to cause an abortion much less block implantation. The most recent studies have shown there are not changes to the uterine lining after a single dose and if you take it after you have already ovulated it does nothing. It takes 6-9 days for implantation after intercourse, yet the damn thing only works if you take it within 72 hours. A single dose of progestin isn't going to do shit 6-9 days later, if it did then people on the mini-pill could miss doses left and right but still have some protection.
Also, everytime I see Brownback's name in print, I immediately think "Brown Shirt." If he would only stop acting so much like one, perhaps I could stop making that automatic association.
Also, RME at the get a job comment. Our economy is so shitty right now I'm sure that these women could find a good job that provides contraception in their insurance package.
The non-catholic opponents mind that unmarried women have access to birth control but probably don't mind it if married women have access to it. Because hey, they must already have permission from their husbands because why else would a married woman not want to have kids, right?
But they can't say that because it would be a wee bit too discriminatory. Somehow.
Because it's just that easy!
Not to get all conspiracy-theorist or anything, but this spunkcrumpet doesn't just limit his asshattery to every day idiocy. He's also part of something known as the "Senate Values Action Team", which is, in his own words an "off-the-record weekly meeting of representatives from religious conservative organizations."
Gee. Wonder what they could be discussing that has to be "off the record". He also defunded the Kansas Arts Commission because, you know, art has no intrinsic value whatsoever.
Fuck, I hate these ultra-religious cockmonkeys.
For his part, Brownback on Monday denied wanting to limit the rights of women.
BULL. SHIT.
“Having three very good, strong daughters that are doing quite well, I — and I want them to have every opportunity and every possibility in this country and they’re going to have it,” he said.
Grammatical butchery aside, I'm sure you do wish for them to do well, Brownie. The only problem is that you quantify them 'doing well' as being subservient, docile little broodmares for their husbands, rather than as independent, self-aware women, like they and all other women, deserve.
Fuck off, you misogynistic throwback.
[ /rant ]
Edited at 2012-02-28 08:17 pm (UTC)