Intro: Without media fanfare, Governor Matt Blunt sets a task force to work on researching how abortions affect women after the procedure.
Beth Ford has more from Jefferson City. Beth Ford has more from Jefferson City. The task force is the brain-child of the president of an anti-abortion group John McCastle. The governor's office hosts monthly meetings with the task force to discuss progress.
But the executive director of NARAL Pro Choice-Missouri Pamela Sumners says the task force is not using scientific information to draw conclusions. Reporting from the state capitol, I'm Beth Ford, KMOX News. Members of the task force include primarily anti-abortion leaders in the state.
The task force aims to research how abortions affect women, but Pamela Sumner, the executive director of NARAL-Pro Choice Missouri, questions the legitimacy of the research.
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Run Time: 00:03
Description: "And it's sheerly political and sheerly ideological."
The governor's office didn't issue a press release on the task force.
From the state capitol, I'm Beth Ford, KMOX News.
Intro: Governor Matt Blunt invited multiple pro-life leaders to be part of a task force to research effects on women after they had abortions.
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Run Time: 00:19
Description: "There is a lot of pure reviewed material out there...credible scientific studies about the actual effects of abortion on women, that were prepared by objective scientists, and not by a bunch of political hack with an ideological axe to grind."
Taxpayer dollars are not financing the task force.
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