It had to come to this. Republicans don't want birth control and abortion for women, so that means more poor women with babies. And if there's anything Republicans worship it's money. Once you are born, you are on your own. It's positively medieval. Just like Republicans.

I kind of wish that for a year everyone on the plant magically switched genders. Hormones, bodies and all.

Then perhaps we would not have sociopathic, empathy free bills like this one.

So if there are any aliens, wizards, or alien wizards reading, help me out here.

She has to report her abuser's identity? So, this only applies to acquaintance rape? Oh wait I forgot the Akin Rule: stranger rape = legitimate rape = no pregnancy.

@3 - That's how they get you. If you can identify your rapist, it wasn't legit, and you should have just laid back and enjoyed it. In fact, you clearly did enjoy it a little bit since your body never shut that whole thing down.

Wow. How low can they go?

And these are the people who run around talking about being pro-life.

What's evil about the welfare system is it provides so little support for the needy they have to cheat it to get by.

And is it sexist of me to say it's bad enough these idiot men talk about how they had to search their soul to decide babies are gifts from God and should never be aborted when there's no chance they'll experience an unwanted pregnancy but they can, after all, only approach the idea theoretically and what really kills me is there's a *woman* sponsoring this bill? I don't care because it's true. In this room full of rich white people who want to kill the poor, it's the old lady who hurts me the most.

Shouldn't "amount of children" be "number of children", or is this program based on collective birth weight?

And I'd like to add that children who are born with mild to severe deformities need expensive care. Maybe it would be best to start placing them in Catholic torture chambers again.

No, you cannot have an abortion.

No, we will not teach reproductive responsibility in school.

No, we will not cover your birth control... there are plenty of places you can get free condoms...
Except, we're going to try to shut down all those places.

No, you will receive no help from us to raise your kids.

Republicans only feel satisfied when everyone is miserable and suffering. Republican beliefs and ideas are evil.

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: so-called "pro-lifers" aren't PRO-anything; they're anti-woman, period. They'll literally kill to "save the unborn", but once that kid pushes its way out of mom's uterus, they couldn't give a shit about what happens to it from there on out - unless perhaps, it's born into a good, God-fearing, GOP-voting, right-wing, one-man one-woman nucular (sic) family that has a high enough annual income to make the maximum in contributions to their campaign war-chest.

Otherwise, it's "fuck off, you Godless, skanky, welfare-cheats"...

We're the opposite of a compassionate society.

You'd think this deranged and sadistic KKKuntree couldn't sink any lower--until RAPE became a winning campaign issue. Jeezus Fooking Kee-rist.

Doesn't it make sense to deincentivize having more kids just for the sake of increased welfare...doesn't that ultimately help alleviate poverty.

Ah I should know better than to click on an unregistered comment but sigh......
@14: Sweetie. The objection raised is to this portion:
....."and her abuser's identity". If the victim can't provide the identity of her rapist, then she is shit out of luck according to the wording of this bill.
See now for people like me, who did not know the identity of their attacker, that would be a bit of pickle now wouldn't it?

@ 10, Urgurtha, that is a solid statement. I would like to see it posted everywhere.

@11: Yup, those red states are gonna be plumb out of luck once the blue states stop footing the bill. http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo33/… http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfounda…

but they provide free birth control, right? what's the problem?

note that a democratic rep is cosponsoring the bill. with friends like these...

Someone somewhere out there is getting a deal and it ain't me!!!

Once we stop paying them peoples to have babies, we can finally address the fake handicappers. I seen you park in the handicap spot and you walk just like a normal person.

Or hows-about when they don't have to pay when they get on the bus? Just because you cousins with the bus driver you don't has to pay?

You was raped you say? Real-raped or want-a-tax-break raped?

There ought to be a law!

@24: Thank you soooooooooooo much for you concern! Actually I need to amend my post. Upon further reading of the bill it does contain the qualifier "where possible" in regards to reporting the identity of one's assailant.

So, they'll grant benefits to newborns if they are conceived via the violence and trauma of forced sex, but not for newborns who are the result of consensual, pleasurable coitus.

This has nothing at all to do with 'welfare abuse'. It's entirely about punishing single women for having sex.

Medicaid has an exception for paying for abortion when the Medicaid recipient was raped; this was the reason behind Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's and Paul Ryan's attempt to change the exception to "forcible" rape.

The thing is, virtually no Medicaid recipients who qualify for that exception take advantage of it because, even with a fairly wide exception (no "forcible" requirement), having to prove sexual assault to some government bureaucrat is a step too far for those women. They'd rather borrow or scrounge up the money to pay for the abortion themselves.

No welfare recipient will take advantage of that rape exception, which is, of course, the entire point. Republicans can pretend to be compassionate when in fact they want to see poor people starve.

@8

What Republicans want is to make women dependent on their husbands.

I'll go you one better. What Republicans want is to make women dependent. Women will be passed from father (or brother) to a prospective husband (money optional but preferred). And they won't need to worry their pretty little heads over going to school, working or shopping. No, wait. Shopping will be okay, as long as they are chaperoned. So, that will also remove the possibility of unwed intercourse or rape and any resulting pregnancies.

::ponders:: Hey, I know regimes where this is the norm. Woo-hoo. Laissez le bon temps rouler.

@24: You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson.
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1) This bill was introduced by Rep. Rosemarie Swanger. The last bill she authored? A bill to declare the apple the official fruit of Pennsylvania. Seriously.

2) The PA Legislature is done with lawmaking until January, but even then I doubt this makes it out of committee. Or at least I can only hope.

Oh ,Republicans seem to be fine with gaming the system/cheating the government, so long as the ones who do the gaming are rich people, and they are gaming the tax system.

Morons. Republicans are sick of people using the system for years and years. Those people that have babies to effectively give themselves a 'raise'. Those people that have babies as the older ones turn 18, so that they can maintain their 'income', Personally, I think it's a great idea to limit these free loaders, and force them to work. If they don't like working, they are free to go to Canada and live off the government there.