Nixon vetoes 72-hour waiting period for abortions in Missouri
Last edited Sun Jul 6, 2014, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Setting up an election-year showdown with the Legislature, Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed on Wednesday a bill that would have required a 72-hour waiting period for abortions in Missouri.
Nixon said the bills lack of an exception for victims of rape and incest was a glaring omission that was wholly insensitive to women who find themselves in horrific circumstances.
But even if the bill had contained such an exception, he would have vetoed it, Nixon said in unusually sharp criticism of an abortion bill.
Tripling the current 24-hour waiting period serves no demonstrable purpose other than to create emotional and financial hardships for women who have undoubtedly already spent considerable time wrestling with perhaps the most difficult decision they may ever have to make, the governor, a Democrat, said in his veto message.
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valerief
(53,235 posts)pstokely
(10,528 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 3, 2014, 01:06 AM - Edit history (1)
they'll probably override it during the special session
valerief
(53,235 posts)calimary
(81,265 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)...would that have changed their minds? What's the point, except to be assholes?
--imm
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)It's a victory. Thanks for your post.
Aristus
(66,367 posts)"Underlying this bill, and the expansion of the governmental interference it would mandate,
Well done...
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)Republicans in Missouri are among the most radical in all 50 States.
father founding
(619 posts)Nixon is still screwing things up.
alp227
(32,024 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)Seems strange to celebrate sanity, but we see so little of it these days that it's refreshing when it happens, especially in politics.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Someone said they had to wait that long to buy a gun, they'd implode.
As a missouri Democrat he Is only thing that can stand between the republican nutjobs who In the legislate.
Unfortuly they have the votes to override it as they have a veto proof majority.