As a Registered Nurse and health educator, I am appalled by HB1075. I can go in and teach kids about STD's effects, symptoms, etc. and I can tell them they can get 100% protection from abstinence (which I do, by the way) but if a kid IS sexually active and they ask how they can protect themselves, I have to say, "You need to make an appointment with your family practitioner"? What planet are these people from? Have they ever been in a public school? Have they ever watched a young person die from HIV/AIDS? First, most kids don't have the copay to go to the physician, and if they did, do they want their parent to get the insurance statement of benefits? If they felt like they could go to their family doctor, they probably have the gumption to talk to their parent. It is the kids that CAN'T that are at risk. Do these religious radicals think we go in and start throwing condoms out to the kids and telling them how to go get an abortion? I always talk about the failure rates of condoms and birth control, but this bill makes it illegal for me to even mention them. WAKE UP CALL!! NO ONE is PRO-abortion. If you were REALLY concerned about PREVENTING abortions, instead of trying to cram YOUR religion down THEIR throats, then you would try to PREVENT UNPLANNED pregnancies. I am personally pro-life, I just don't think it is MY place to force my faith on others. That is between that family and their faith/God. :banghead:
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We need to get on the horn NOW and call all our Reps. because this bill has the support of some DEMOCRATS, namely;
Kate Meiner D-KC (46th Dist.)
Jeff City Office Phone# 1-573-751-9469 Home Phone 816-942-3837
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[email protected]Belinda Harris D-Hillsboro (110th Dist.)
Jeff City Office Phone# 1-573-751-2398 Home Phone 636-944-3522
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[email protected] Others that MAY support it, just based on other votes;
Wayne Henke D-Troy (11th Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-9459 Home Phone 636-528-6987
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[email protected]Wes Wagner D-DeSoto (104th Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-7735 Home Phone 636-337-2555
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[email protected]Tim Meadows D-Imperial (101st Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-1311 Home Phone 636-461-1217
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