Texas wants women to have babies so much that lawmakers are willing to spend part of the state’s very limited budget to reward companies that deny insured reproductive healthcare to women.

Last week, tea party-backed GOP Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a self-proclaimed Baptist, filed House Bill 649, which would stroke “religiously based” companies, like craft store Hobby Lobby (???), by giving them tax breaks if they choose to deny their female employees contraception coverage.

The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) addressed the growing costs of contraception, dwindling access to it, and increasing need for coverage by making it mandatory for some companies to provide that insurance coverage or else pay a federal fine.