Springfield News-Leader
JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri Senate passed a tax critical to funding the state s Medicaid program early Saturday morning after a bipartisan group overruled anti-abortion demands to pass the bill without language banning abortion providers from Medicaid funding.
A three-year renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowances, which taxes hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities to earn Missouri federal dollars, came after nearly nine hours of closed-door negotiations among Republicans and further floor debate. The tax s passage prevents a potential massive budget gap and closure of Medicaid facilities around the state.
The bill will now go to the Missouri House of Representatives, who will meet next week.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
In “Two-parent families are not only a moral imperative, they are an economic one, too” (Web, June 24) former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker writes that the out-of-wedlock birth rate is increasing in the U.S., and he cites an enormous increase in this rate since 1965, especially among Black Americans. The children, according to Walker, end up having many problems.
Mr. Walker offers a three-part solution to restore families. Everyoe should: 1) Finish school, 2) Get a full-time job and 3) Wait until age 21 to get married and have children.
Two-parent families are gradually disappearing, especially among Black Americans. The racist Planned Parenthood puts its businesses in minority neighborhoods. It targets Black teens, telling them that sex any time is fine as long as they use contraceptives. But contraceptives have a high rate of failure among teens, and soon a pregnancy occurs, resulting in either an abortion or single motherhood. Once in that mode, teens contin
27 Jun 2021
A book for children under 13 which aims to normalize abortion as “another outcome of pregnancy” will appear in abortion clinics and public libraries around the country in the coming months.
Two abortion doulas, Carly Manes and Mar, launched an online campaign for
What’s an Abortion, Anyway? on May 10 on Kickstarter. By early June, the pair raised more than $20,000 from 500-plus supporters to create their book in English and Spanish. They wrote the book because, to their knowledge, “there are no published books in the United States about abortion for children under the age of 13.”
“We believe in building a world for kids and adults where abortion is normalized as another outcome of pregnancy, just like miscarriage and birth. Having this book in the children’s section of libraries next to all of the books about pregnancy is one of the ways we hope to do that,” they said on their Kickstarter campaign page.
Ohio lawmakers finally settled on a $75 billion, two-year spending plan that cuts income taxes, creates a new school funding formula and allows college athletes to make money off their fame.
Ohio lawmakers sent the bipartisan budget to Gov. Mike DeWine Monday evening following an 82-13 vote in the Ohio House and 32-1 vote in the Ohio Senate. Sen. Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo was the sole no vote in that chamber. DeWine has a deadline: He must sign the bill before Thursday.
Here are some of the big changes that Ohio lawmakers made.
Tax cuts and refunds
They finally landed on an across-the-board income tax cut of 3%. The minimum amount Ohioans can earn before paying any income taxes was also raised to $25,000 a year, and lawmakers eliminated the top income tax bracket for wealthy residents.