Missouri governor calls special session on abortion

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Wed Jun 7, 2017 | 4:50pm EDT

Missouri governor calls special session on abortion

By Chris Kenning

Missouri's Republican governor on Wednesday said he will convene a special legislative session next week to consider new abortion regulations and counter a local St. Louis law he said made it an "abortion sanctuary city." ... The session, set to start on Monday, will seek stricter regulations on abortion clinics, including requiring annual inspections and that clinics adopt plans for potential medical complications, Governor Eric Greitens said in a statement.

That came in response to a federal judge's ruling in April that blocked requirements for clinics to meet standards for surgical centers and for doctors to have hospital privileges.

Greitens said he also wants to target an ordinance approved by St. Louis aldermen in February banning employers and landlords from discriminating against women who have had an abortion, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.

The Missouri legislative session ended in May without approving a proposal to nullify the ordinance, which critics said would force groups that oppose abortion to sanction it and could threaten the work of anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-abortion-idUSKBN18Y32C

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Gov who was a D until 2015 and poof...magically an R and elected goober. F'ing pubes.

[Jake Stern]

11. Had he ran as a Dem, DUers would have been defending him

as "the best we could hope for in Missouri"

[pstokely]

12. while his Dem opponent was a Repuke until 2008

nt

[Moostache]

2. I FUCKING HATE LIVING IN EAST KANSAS!!!!

This entire religious-based holier-than-thou anti-women nonsense makes me want to punt kittens....and the kittens do NOT deserve THAT!!

Fuck every one of these motherfuckers in the Missouri GOP who are hell bent on out Kansasing Kansas...

Sorry, had to vent...

[sandensea]

13. The worst one, correct me if I'm wrong, is the appropriately named Rick BRATtin.

The little bastard wants to be dictator of the U.S. someday, so they say, and is trying to make as much fundamentalist noise as possible to draw wingnut attention to himself.

[lark]

3. Could threaten the work of politically motivated pregnant woman exploitation efforts.

I'm sure that's truly what he meant to say, just got the words all wrong. There's nothing at all wrong with what St. Louis did, the Repugs just don't like it due to their love affair with fetuses and hate poor children after they are born.

[ehrnst]

4. Because ladies and their ladypart doctors can't be trusted.

Fucker.

[Matthew28]

5. Religious fascism is what this is

Same mindset as the people we're at war with in the middle east...

I don't like the direction this country is moving in.

[LittleGirl]

6. The Supreme Court

needs to protect us from these religious fanatics.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Republicans hate women ------- just want them to be baby machines --- then they are forgoten

[hamsterjill]

15. Yep.

And the more babies a woman has to care for, the less time she has to do anything else. Like be involved in politics, etc.

[LuckyLib]

8. I couldn't live there. My heart goes out to Dems who have no choice.

[Judi Lynn]

9. He must want to catch up with Kansas in going straight backward. n/t

[cab67]

10. ever notice...

...that in terms of being pronounced, Missouri and misery differ only in the syllable that gets emphasized?

Whether this matches reality is for others to decide, I suppose.

[justhanginon]

14. In my group of Illinoisians,

(I moved across the river some 20 years ago), we now refer to Missouri as Missourippi as it continues its rightward religious path to conservative hell. St. Louis and Kansas City are still good but the surburbs are increasingly going down the Greiten ("machine gun kid&quot trail of religious BS and guns for everybody.