In a sign that—perhaps, maybe—the extreme right’s extremist attacks on the rights and health of women and children may have some limits, the Oklahoma legislature today allowed a bill to die in committee which, if passed, would have denied food vouchers and nutrition services to prenatal and pediatric clients served by Planned Parenthood of Tulsa County.
- Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief RH Reality Check
May 26, 2011
Sanity Prevails in Oklahoma, For Now
May 10, 2011
10 Worst States To Be a Woman
5. Oklahoma. Oklahoma legislators looked at how Indiana Republicans are using the specter of abortion to cut off contraception and thinking of ways they can expand on that for brand-new ways to punish women for having working uteruses. Why stop at attacking women not giving birth, when you have women who have babies to punish, as well? With this in mind, the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would eliminate independent contractors from administering Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a federal program that distributes nutrition vouchers to low-income women with children. As usual, Planned Parenthood was cited as the reason, with the GOP claiming the organization is so evil that it’s better to starve babies than allow Planned Parenthood to receive government funding. In practice, the result is one more punishment inflicted on women, this time for having the nerve to have babies who need to eat.
I hope that lawmakers don’t take the 5th position ranking as a sign that they need to be more hateful and terrible in order to make Oklahoma #1. The article is very worth a read in order to bring you up to the tragic state of the American government’s war on women.
April 26, 2011
Measure would impact infant feeding program to target Planned Parenthood
More info on OK House lawmaker decision to cut WIC funding.
Unbelievably, something like that occurred last week in the Oklahoma House. Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, moved to amend a senior nutrition bill so that it prohibits independent contractors from distributing federal funds for a program that feeds mothers, babies and small children.
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The amendment would allow governmental entities - mainly county health departments - to continue distributing WIC vouchers. But it’s no stretch to argue that the women who obtain WIC from the independent contractors might have great difficulty finding their way to a health department site. Remember, these are not women of means. Many, if not most, would have to rely on public transportation - with one or more small children in tow. Some of the new mothers are younger than 16 years old and obviously would have no choice but to rely on someone else to drive them.
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Yet another worrisome consequence of this amendment: If there aren’t enough providers to serve all WIC clients, and the client rolls decline, then the federal funding for the program might be cut back - at a time when more money is needed for such purposes.
- Tulsa World Editorial Writers
Contact your OK senator to keep this amendment for adversely affecting Oklahoma’s families and children!
April 26, 2011
OK House legislators pass an amendment to cut funding for WIC
First they limit access to abortion, and now they pass measures to cut funding to help feed those children? Oklahoma is a dangerous place for anyone except a fetus.
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All this debate about abortion, but how often do you hear from the women who get them?
Well now there’s a tumblr for that!
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inconstantcontradiction asked: "The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s real harm, not just “offense."
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Yes. Excellent example of that passage.
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