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 | Senator Crowell said: "The rights of the unborn include the right to be born, and it's time that Missouri recognizes, respects and protects unborn human life." 2 On another occasion, he said: "Ultimately I think we need to get down to the core issue. Should abortion be legal in the state of Missouri?" 1 |
| Representative Henke said: "I can't say I've got a lot of strategy behind this, it's just what I believe. If you're pro-life, you're pro-life. Don't tell me you're pro-life and then not support this." |
| Alison Gee, political director for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, said: "We know that the majority of Missourians think that abortion should be safe and legal, and this goes directly against that." 1 On another occasion, she said: "I think it's pretty outrageous." She noted that the same legislators who support the bill are the same ones who were also seeking to restrict women's access to emergency conception to prevent pregnancy. She asked: "Why are these people not going to the core issue of unintended pregnancy? That's why women seek abortions: because they become pregnant unintentionally.....And yet again these same legislators [who support SB1248] are making it hard to get these services and making it harder for kids in school to get information about contraception....why are these legislators, if they're so concerned about women, so concerned about women's health, so concerned about reducing abortions, why are they making it harder for them to get contraception?" She referred to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, It concluded that increased access to contraception led to decreased incidence of abortion "by maybe up to as many as half....So there is some middle ground, let's join together and try to reduce unintended pregnancies -- that's the core issue. If women don't get pregnant unintentionally, they won't ever have to face the decision whether...to terminate a pregnancy." 3 |
| Gerald Beam, an organizer at Dexter Life Chain said that the bill is: "...an answer to prayer. In the past, I think the pro-life side has been too accommodating and trusting to the other side. And now I think the pendulum of public sentiment is beginning to swing in the opposite direction." Speculating about the response of the pro-life movement to exceptions that would allow abortions in unusual circumstances, Beam said: "...we might agree to an exception for the life of the mother. But then when you start bringing in the health of the mother, well what is 'health?' What if she says, 'well, I want to go on vacation to Florida with my husband, but I can't wear my bathing suit and I'll be depressed because I can't go'?" He suggested that a carefully worded exception to permit an abortion if needed to preserve a woman's future ability to bear children would warrant consideration. "...if it was narrow enough, I would think a lot of pro-life people could go along with it." He said that he would reject an exception based on rape or incest because "...only 1 to 2 percent of all abortions are due to a rape or incest." 3 |
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- Matt Franck and Jonathan Rivoli, "Missouri anti-abortion leaders question strategy of bills to ban procedure," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2006-MAR-02, at: http://www.stltoday.com/
- Jonathan Rivoli, "Missouri senator files bill to ban abortions," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2006-MAR-01, at: http://www.stltoday.com/
- Gary Exelby, "Implacable foes: pro-life, pro-choice sides clash on Senate Bill 1248," The Daily Statesman, 2006-MAR-03, at: http://www.dailystatesman.com/
- "Is Roe v. Wade doomed? The abortion battle is heating up as states pass anti-abortion bills," ABC News, 2006-MAR-03, at: http://abcnews.go.com/
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