A Republican lawmaker in Arkansas introduced a bill this month that would create a “contraceptive incentive” for unmarried women on Medicaid who need time to “think about their life decisions that are affecting us as taxpayers,” according to a report from RH Reality Check.
State Rep. Kim Hammer’s (R) bill would allow Medicaid to reimburse single women with one child for a “surgically implanted contraceptive device,” such as an intrauterine device, or other form of birth control that would remain effective for five years.
“Often young people make decisions and they get a sense that they don’t want to make that decision again for a while. We need to give them a little bit of a breather to think about their life decisions that are affecting us as taxpayers,” Hammer said when he introduced the bill, according to the Arkansas News.
Hammer previously supported a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks.
H/t ThinkProgress
