Drug Testing For Welfare - Pelvic Exam Next For Women

[TheMastersNemesis]

Colorado Nazi GOP proposed a bill that will require welfare applicants to get and pay for a drug test before they can get welfare. Why not at a pelvic exam to make sure you are NOT using birth control.

How crazy are these bastards going to have to get before we tar and feather them politically.

[CTyankee]

1. Nikolai Cecesceu (sp?) in Rumania tried this back in the day...

women working in factories had to submit to gyn exams to make sure they weren't using birth control (dunno how that works) because Nikolai wanted to increase the population.

You know what the people who revolted did to him? Lined him up against a wall a machine gunned him to death...

[xchrom]

3. Indeed. Nt

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. I Hate Being So Vociferous

I really hate being so vociferous. I used to work with welfare clients 1976 to 1982 in a work to welfare program. Something like this latest bill would be unthinkable. It is unAmerican. These jerks won't quit until you put a finger in their face and force them to back down. The GOP is the pro rapist party. They rape everything they touch.

[Capitalocracy]

4. Meanwhile, female sweatshop workers who make the clothes we wear

are FORCED to use birth control, often in excessive doses (as in whole packets at a time), to make sure their productivity isn't interrupted by pregnancy. This happens in U.S. client states.

Seems like at home, we have to do everything we can to stop women from using birth control, and abroad, we have to make damn well sure they don't get pregnant. What we really can't tolerate, it seems, is choice.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. virginity exams for the unwed?

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. Actually That Is Next

You are not far from the truth. The GOP and RW supports binding covenant marriages. They also promote abstinence. It can only follow that virginity tests will be next.. The GOP actually supports making divorce illegal if not nearly impossible. Just look at the forced counseling bills before you can file for divorce. And I have seen chatter where they want to make adultery and fornication at least a misdemeanor. They want to put gays in jail.


These people are at war on women and we need to go back to war with them. It is hard to stay civil when they keep backhanding you in the face. How different is the GOP from what the nazis did.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. your description is chillingly believable.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. It would be bad enough to make drug testing for benefits mandatory to start with, but

what if they get a false positive result? Apparently, this happens in 5 - 10% of drug tests. To make proposals like this just proves that they really don't care for low income people or their children, who will be hurt the most by their selfish actions. What really chaps me is that most of the people making these proposals claim to be Christians.

[Capitalocracy]

7. Then that's at least an automatic 5 - 10% savings!

Yay! Mission accomplished.

[earthside]

10. So what happens to drug addicts?

This is what I don't understand from the people who propose this kind of testing?

So, an unemployed, poor, starving, probably homeless person tests positive for drug use and is a drug user ... what is supposed to happen to them?

Do these legislators want to pay for institutionalizing these sad souls and paying for their food and shelter that way? Or do they really want to see them just dying on the sidewalks of downtown Denver?

Really, I don't get it.