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TYT: Republican Senator Halts Important Research To Spite Planned Parenthood
A Republican state senator in Missouri is blocking the study of the effects on a 72 hour waiting period for abortions on women. He claims that this is to hinder the capabilities of Planned Parenthood, and make it more difficult for them to provide abortions. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Is Sen. Schaefer just doing this for publicity? Let us know in the comments below.
Read more here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kurt-schaefer-missouri-abortion-study
“Missouri state Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R) has launched an effort to stop a University of Missouri graduate student from studying the impacts of a state law mandating a 72-hour abortion waiting period passed last year.
He accused the university of breaking a state law that prohibits the use of state funds to "encourage or counsel a woman to have an abortion not necessary to save her life," the Columbia Tribune reported last week.
"The study does not appear to be designed as an objective, unbiased research project, but rather as a marketing aid for Planned Parenthood — one that is funded, in part or in whole, by taxpayer dollars," Schaefer wrote in an October 30 letter to the university's chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin.”