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david packard champagne david that dot com welcome to the show it's march
alloted break programming this week
including today let's get right into it uh... we talk of a re-offend about kind
of the inherent hypocrisy berkman really hypocrisy just kind of the nonsense like
a logic
in um... so many conservatives pushing abstinence only education
and reducing access to birth control and then complaining that there's too many
abortions of course we know well what would decrease the number of abortions
less people getting pregnant in the first place and the way you do that is
of course not to teach abstinence only sex education and not to reduce access
to birth control that we've covered many times have we not right
well-documented well-known we've covered it many times yes
pleasure great so what's been going on in texas because now we have that we we
are now starting to see
everything coming off of the walls and to states really having significant
problems with this
that now they are starting to have to backtrack from here's an example
back in twenty eleven texas had of course a fiscal crunch
so the texas state legislature
cut the state's family planning budget by two thirds by about sixty six percent
and some law lawmakers said that what they were doing by doing this was
defunding the abortion industry now that's a loaded term in and of itself of
course the list
the abortion industry suggesting that abortions
unlike any other medical procedure which is paid for for-profit industries a
for-profit lawyers many other medical procedure even if it does make money
whether or not it's in a for-profit or not for profit venue is not designed for
profit abortions are unique in that case and we understand that turn don't leak
we do
so what happened
researchers at the university of texas at austin found that more than fifty
family planning clinics
closed across the state as a result of these cuts
so now what's going on
i think we all know what's going on biggest any logical clear thinking
individual would know what's going on
now there are estimates that the cuts could lead to twenty four thousand
twenty four thousand additional births between twenty fourteen and twenty
fifteen
and a taxpayer cost of two hundred and seventy three
million
dollars so what's going on now lawmakers are trying to restore the financing to
those family-planning clinics without ruffling the feathers of extremist right
wing conservatives very clearly here
conservative religious values and getting in the way of needed funding
based on science and medical research to prevent
pregnancies
anybody surprised
you know every state realized what's happening here are willing to
try and do something about it without uh...
you know
instead of just sacrificing though the well-being of their people
for their religious ideal we basically have now people scrambling for a
solution right republican state senators have proposed adding a hundred million
dollars to a state-run primary care program
specifically for women's health services
because it's not technically family planning right if they put the money
into family planning its
per se
the response people would foot that rebel is conservatives have gone out
some instead its primary care which is focused on with so-called women's health
services it's basically all more or less all the same thing
this cannot continue we cannot keep
health issue after health issue
unwanted pregnancies
the cost the fiscally conservative thing is to reduce the number of unwanted
pregnancies
that and and the religious conservative thing to do would be to reduce the
number of unwanted pregnancies on the fiscal side because it reduces cost and
other social side because it reduces abortions conservatives seem more or
less unwilling to do so at least in texas here we see
kind of for the wrong reasons but yet did this deal make sense
figure of doing something that makes more sense
rover something that it really
powerful in the way and that's called stupidity her haters
the stupidity and dogma seems to me was in the way here