“Prolifers” for Eugenics

Last updated on: March 27, 2015 at 12:47 am by Mark Shea

“Prolifers” for Eugenics 2015-03-26T21:25:33-07:00 Mark Shea

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Meet Arkansas GOP representative Kim Hammer.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling from Trinity College of the Bible. He has been a Baptist pastor since 1979 and chaplain of the Saline Memorial Hospice in Benton since 2006. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas. Hammer has a strongly conservative voting record in the state House. He joined the needed two-thirds majority to override the vetoes of Democratic Governor Mike Beebe to enact legislation requiring photo identification for casting a ballot in Arkansas and to ban abortion after twenty weeks of gestation; he was the co-sponsor of both of these measures. He voted to ban abortion whenever fetal heartbeat is detected, to forbid the inclusion of abortion in state insurance plans, and to make the death of an unborn child a felony in certain cases. He voted for curriculum standards for Bible instruction in public schools. Hammer backed legislation to allow handguns on church properties. He co-sponsored legislation to empower university officials to carry weapons in the name of campus safety. He voted against the law to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan.

So what does a guy with such impeccable conservative and “prolife” credentials do when confronted with the problem of the Breeding Poor?:

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 18 19 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 20, Chapter 77, Subchapter 1, is 20 amended to add an additional section to read as follows: 21 20-77-131. Contraception incentive for Medicaid beneficiary. 22 (a) An unmarried individual who has one child and who is receiving 23 Medicaid benefits shall be eligible to receive a one-time contraception 24 incentive from the Department of Human Services if the individual: 25 (1) Consents to have a surgically implanted contraception device 26 or other similar reversible birth control device with a five (5) year or 27 longer period of effectiveness; 28 (2) Receives a surgically implanted contraception device or 29 other similar reversible birth control device with a five (5) year or longer 30 period of effectiveness

This is straight up eugenics and a fine illustration of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife mind. The poor are to be sterilized, not helped.

Every serious prolifer should regard this with the same hostility we regard one of Al Gore “cull the herd” initiatives in the Third World. If you live in Arkansas, call this guy and register your protest and this act of eugenics pressure on the poor.

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