Laura Lucerne's blog

According to a Sept. 24 article in the St. Joe News-Press, Matt Blunt said he doesn’t intend to fund birth control for low-income women because he “doesn’t have any plans to push for funding things that many Missourians don’t believe in.”

Hmmmm.

Missourians don't believe in contraception? That's funny, because a national poll conducted in May by American Viewpoint found that 88 percent of registered voters support women's access to contraception and 86 percent support the federal program that provides low-income women with contraception. I guess it wouldn't be that surprising if Missouri was so different than the rest of the country--but I doubt it. Birth control is so widely used that 98 percent of women who've had sex say that they've used a method at least once. And you don't see Mrs. Blunt pregnant again, do you?