In which I make a funny involving his surname, intellect and/or genitalia.
December 12th, 2007 4:40 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri – can [at] prochoiceamerica.org
Date: Dec 12, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Matt Blunt’s Triple Threat
Missouri women’s right to choose is under the worst assault since the days before Roe v. Wade. Governor Matt Blunt knows he’s in trouble with his right-wing base, so now he’s rolled out his three-pronged plan of attack to destroy women’s rights and win re-election. Tell Governor Blunt to stop his assault on Missouri’s women and their families at
prochoiceaction.org/campaign/MO_Access_Gov_1207/
First, he unilaterally appointed a task force to “study” the effects of abortion on women. The task force met several times before anyone knew about it, in obvious breach of Missouri’s open meeting Sunshine Laws. Since the panel’s purpose is to earn points with his radical base and not to promote the health or safety of women and their families, the governor has invited only anti-choice ideologues to sit on the panel. NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri asked to participate, and our request to present medically-accurate input fell on deaf ears.
Second, he gave the task force authority to lay out legislative priorities. The members of the task force propose requiring the state Department of Health to breach patient confidentiality laws and track women for years after they have an abortion; forcing doctors to provide misleading and slanted counseling to their patients; and funneling tax money that once subsidized family-planning services to the non-medical agencies that panel members operate.
The third, most dangerous prong of this malicious attack on women is an effort to get a statewide abortion ban on the ballot next November.* If the initiative becomes law, abortion would be illegal in ALL CASES, even to save a woman’s life or to prevent irreversible damage to her body. There is no exception for rape or incest.
Act today! Tell Governor Blunt to stop his assault on Missouri’s women and their families at prochoiceaction.org/campaign/MO_Access_Gov_1207/
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Visit the web address below to tell your friends about Governor Blunt’s assault on Missouri’s women and their families.
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* Sez Laura Scott of the KC Star,
A proposed Missouri initiative to ban virtually all abortions is not going to get on the ballot easily. And it certainly shouldn’t.
It is not a simple little measure to limit abortions. Even in cases where a woman’s life is in danger from the pregnancy, the proposal requires extensive emotional, psychological, physical, situational, and demographic evaluations of the woman before the abortion can be performed. That’s ridiculous.
Even the title of the proposal is misleading. It is called the “Prevention of Coerced and Unsafe Abortions Act.”
Coerced abortions? In Missouri?
Do these people ever tell the truth?
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