Editorial: Playing politics with women's reproductive health

[theHandpuppet]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Editorial: Playing politics with women's reproductive health
18 hours ago • By the Editorial Board

Here’s what qualifies as compromise in the Missouri Legislature these days.

Late Monday night, Senate Republicans agreed that they’d temporarily halt their attacks on worker rights, the disabled and minorities as long as Democrats sat down and allowed an unconstitutional attack on women’s reproductive rights instead.

The Democrats, all nine of them, agreed.

Hence what might be the most restrictive abortion-rights law in the country is closer to its ultimate destination: a courtroom battle....

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[niyad]

1. k and r for a seriously depressing subject

[theHandpuppet]

2. Is it just my imagination....

Or are democratic pols around the country just caving on this issue? What are we still having to battle for these rights and why are so many Dems going along with the RW? You go to a lot of sites for Dem political candidates these days and they won't even touch reproduction rights as one of their issues. I can't believe such cowardice coming from our own party.

[niyad]

3. you used the correct word-cowardice. craven, woman-hating, gutless cowardice.

they are so frightened of the reichwingnutjobs that they refuse to do the correct things when it comes to women's rights, women' reproductive health care, anything to do with women. absolutely disgusting.

[libodem]

4. Glad we have this group

Because we know something is wrong.with this picture:

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