Will the pro-life movement start to lose patience with the Republicans?
NARAL’s email blast crows that Republicans control the Governor’s mansion, the House and the Senate “and yet failed to grant a hearing or failed to vote on every piece of pro-choice, proactive legislation filed this session. These bills include:
HB 871: Woman's Right to Know Bill (no hearing);
SB 458: The Patient Protection Act (hearing in Senate, but no vote after the hearing);
SB 379: The Compassionate Assistance in Rape Emergencies (C.A.R.E.) Act (no hearing);
HB 621 and SB 40: The Birth Control Protection Act (neither bill received a hearing).”
NARAL’s Executive Director Carolyn Sullivan writes, "If the Missouri Legislature truly wants to reduce the number of abortions in Missouri, surely focusing efforts on preventing unintended pregnancies through education is the place to begin."
anti-abortionists will lose patience with Republicans.
Pro-lifers never cared much for them anyway.
:-)
Joe
I think that on some level, Blunt deserves some credit for standing up to the right-wing special interest groups on the abortion legislation, no matter what the motivation. We all decry the sickening influence the special interest, "one issue" groups have on the process, so I don't know that this a matter to bash him on.
Pragmatically, it's a win-win for the Dems. A large portion of Blunt's base becomes fractured, while the no significant anti-choice legislation, or at least the more onerous provision, are adopted.
Posted by RS on Tue., May 17, 2005 at 10:01 PM
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