Rid Us Of These People

Missouri Governer Matt Blunt:

For fifteen years, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri clinics in Joplin and Springfield have offered free breast and cervical cancer screenings as part of the state's "Show Me Healthy Women" program. Now Governor Matt Blunt has announced that he will cut off all program funding to Planned Parenthood and redirect it to other health clinics. "Patients should not have to go to an abortion clinic to access life-saving tests," Blunt declared. Refusing to fund cancer screening at the clinics, he said, "ensures women may access important preventative care without contributing to abortion providers' goal of facilitating the destruction of innocent life."

Here's the twist: The clinics in question do not provide abortion services, though they will discuss the procedure and make referrals.

Whether or not the clinics in question provide abortion services is beside the point.

Here's the deal: Blunt supported the referendum in Missouri allowing human stem-cell research, thus upsetting the yowling freaks in the fundamentalist Christian community. This, it would appear, is an attempt to get back into their good graces. That women will likely die because of his action is fine with him and fine with the Christianists so long as they get their symbolic scalp.

"Pro-life," indeed.

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