
Missouri officials pledge collaboration with panel in effort to defund Planned Parenthood
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : Department of Social Services (DSS) Acting Director Jennifer Tidball and Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS)55% : Acting Director Robert Knodell appeared before the panel and pledged to develop new rules specifically addressing Planned Parenthood and its affiliates if the panel directs them to.
54% : Anti-abortion conservatives in both Missouri General Assembly chambers were livid that the Senate adjourned from special session in late June without considering a House-adopted bill defunding Medicaid providers that directly or through affiliates provide abortion services.
50% : To assuage their anger, Senate President Pro Tem Dave Schatz, R-Sullivan, and Majority Floor Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Carthage, pledged to work with anti-abortion conservatives "in the weeks and months to come to take definitive action" in pushing the proposals outlined in HB 2 and created a new committee to ensure "continued protection of unborn life."
47% : " It essentially would defund Planned Parenthood, which is affiliated with Reproductive Health Services in St. Louis, Missouri's only clinic that offers abortions.
37% : The measure, House Bill 2, states federal law cannot "infringe on the right of the people of Missouri to restrict public funds for abortion.
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