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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts) Mon Apr 4, 2016, 07:18 PM Apr 2016

Missouri GOP combs past for Planned Parenthood censure rules

Source: Associated Press

Missouri GOP combs past for Planned Parenthood censure rules

Adam Aton, Associated Press

Updated 5:09 pm, Monday, April 4, 2016

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans are looking back more than a century for guidance as they consider whether to hold a regional Planned Parenthood CEO in contempt of the Senate — a rare judgment that could carry jail time.

Senators from both parties have raised questions about how they'd carry out a process that may include testimony before the entire chamber, arrests and sentencing decisions. They've found little direction from recent history; so far, legislative librarians say the last contempt proceeding they've found occurred in 1903.

A Senate panel is to consider proposals Tuesday that would summon Mary Kogut, who heads Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, to explain why she has not complied with a November subpoena demanding documents on how the group handles fetal remains. An attorney plans to appear on the organization's behalf.

Planned Parenthood has disputed the legitimacy of the subpoena, saying it has already complied with an investigation by Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster that found no evidence of illegal tissue sales.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Missouri-GOP-combs-past-for-Planned-Parenthood-7227403.php

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Missouri GOP combs past for Planned Parenthood censure rules (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP

They are going to keep pushing until there is a very real and serious Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #1

They are just harassing this group to get in the spotlight. Here's the good PP does> bjobotts Apr 2016 #2

Jackie Wilson Said

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1. They are going to keep pushing until there is a very real and serious

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 07:24 PM

Apr 2016

problem.

GOP no longer has the legitimacy of law and order.

They operate outside the law and they do so based on beliefs and ideas that are ignorant and childish

bjobotts

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2. They are just harassing this group to get in the spotlight. Here's the good PP does>

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 10:01 PM

Apr 2016

from Nicholas Kristoff’s article in NYT “…This in a country where half of all pregnancies are unintended, where 30 percent of American teenage girls become pregnant by age 19.

The Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, calculates that Title X family planning centers (PP) prevent about one million unintended pregnancies a year, of which 345,000 would have ended in abortion. It says that every year Title X clinics (PP) avert some 53,000 cases of chlamydia and 8,800 cases of gonorrhea, and save the lives of 1,100 women who would otherwise die of cervical cancer.

In other words, Title X prevents an abortion about once every 90 seconds...."
This should be shoved in the faces of all those ignorant or misinformed senators who voted to defund Planned Parenthood as they have no idea how much good this organization does.

The MO GOP is not interested in facts or the good this group does...just the face time they might be able to get out of it. So much work to be done and they waste time on this repeat trivial nonsense. Most Missourians are too busy to keep up with the details and the GOP counts on this.

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