Shorter Missouri GOP: 'To Hell With The Will Of The Voters!'

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Source: crooksandliars.com


Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.


December 10, 2024 by Jeremy Kohler



One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it — or at least undermine it.

One measure would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception, declaring that embryos are people with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The result would be to classify abortion as an unlawful killing.

Another proposal, aimed at repealing the abortion rights amendment, would ask voters to ban gender transition procedures for minors, tying the two issues together, despite the fact that the amendment did not address gender surgery and gender-affirming care for transgender children is already illegal in Missouri...............................




Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/shorter-missouri-gop-hell-will-voters

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Goodness----"killing" is already "unlawful".

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Shorter Missouri GOP: 'To Hell With The Will Of The Voters!' St Louis, Missouri, 2022Credit: Getty Images

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1. The motto of todays GOP..........'To Hell With The Will Of The Voters!'

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7. Absolutely

They have done it before. No surprise here.

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3. Still

Missouri votes for these reactionary politicians and puts them in office.

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5. Still

This wouldn't be the first time that the Missouri Legislature overturned the will of the voters. They will continue to do this until some of the people in Missouri get a clue about the people they vote for.

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4. quote from Bertolt Brecht

Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?

https://www.azquotes.com/author/1856-Bertolt_Brecht

"Party hacks" is a good description of the Missouri GOP

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6. This is exactly what the gop is like in MO. No matter what we pass in MO, they'll ignore it and proceed as if

nothing has happened. They did this too, for our Animal Rights legislation too that we passed. And I'm sure that they are more examples.

My ? is when will the majority of MO finally stand up and notice this?

SMH.