What the Republicans and Right Wingers are up to in Jeff City now

More disgusting incredulousness from the Missouri Republicans in Jeff City of late:

Akin isn't Missouri's only offender on women's issues

The latest salvo in the war on women was fired Sunday by U.S. Rep Todd Akin, who told talk show host Charles Jaco that women rarely get pregnant from “legitimate rape” because the “female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Rep. Akin’s astonishing remarks betray a gross insensitivity to rape victims, and a woeful ignorance of basic biology. His statements – including his unconvincing attempt to backpedal – were quickly decried by politicians in both parties.

President Obama called them “offensive.” Mitt Romney added that he would not oppose abortion in cases of rape.

Unfortunately, the same mindset of putting personal political ideology before the needs of women is pervasive in the Missouri Legislature.

This year it manifested in the passage of Senate Bill 749, a poorly developed piece of legislative overkill that could jeopardize access to contraception for hundreds of thousands of Missouri women and their families — this from legislators who want less government intrusion in the lives of Missourians.

I was relieved when Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the bill in July. However, efforts are underway for an override attempt in the veto session to be held on Wednesday, September 12.

SB 749 invites insurance companies to intrude upon deeply personal – and what should be private – decisions about contraception. It gives insurance companies the power to restrict access to contraception, even if employers and their employees want it.

I just can't get these people.

As the author says above, and as I've said many times before, how is it that these people--"conservatives", people wanting "small government", unintrusive government-- want that same government to rule in women's very private and personal sexual and reproductive rights and decisions? And the people who support them go along with this?

This, apparently, is at least one outcome of having religion deeply embedded in your politics.

The similarities between the Right Wing Christians in the US and the Muslim extremists of the Middle East--Iran, Iraq, etc.--come far too close.

But the Right Wing "Christians" here just don't see that.

Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/akin-isnt-missouris-only-offender-womens-issues/