|“You’d be surprised how many drugged, underaged, or mentally handicapped young women have been gaming the system. Sorry ladies, the free abortion ride is over.”

No, that wasn’t John Boehner. That was Daily Show Women’s Issues correspondent Kristen Schaal, satirizing an underpublicized GOP attack on the right of destitute rape victims to access abortions. The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is R-NJ Rep. Chris Smith’s proposed policy that the National Right to …

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Budget cuts have taken their toll on most government initiatives, but few have been hit as hard as those that aid the destitute. In the current fervor of health care reform, Pawlenty aimed to give the General Assistance Medical Care program—a state medical aid initiative serving the most impoverished and needy single adults—a “reform” that was to mesh with his trend of cutting healthcare provisions in favor of lowering taxes.

As of March 23, the GAMC …

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