Anti-choice advocates accuse GOP of folding "like a cheap lawn chair"

The anger and fury from last week's failed abortion legislation is still boiling over. Last Thursday, Senate Republicans passed a "compromise" anti-choice bill to create new restrictions and hurdles for abortions. It was a compromise in the sense that pro-choice Senators agreed not to filibuster, but was still roundly criticized as unnecessary and unhelpful in reducing abortions. It passed 24-7. 

The House, however, refused to support the revised legislation after anti-choice lobbyists said it had been too watered down. 

And now, there are some very grumpy folks.

Don Hinkle, editor of the Missouri Baptist Convention's Pathway publication, is especially angry concerned:

It has been said of America’s two political parties that one is evil and the other is stupid.

At the risk of sounding angry (which I am not), I have to say it is an apt description for the two parties composing the Missouri General Assembly after they first gutted, then tossed a common sense pro-life bill aside like a dead carcass.

The anti-life tyrants who control the state’s Democrat Party got their way...

The Republican Party, who specializes in pro-life lip service, folded like a cheap lawn chair. They will come calling for the votes of Missouri Christians next year, swearing they are pro-life, but they may find that for too many their actions produce just the opposite. The Republican leadership failed despite having strong majorities in both the Senate and House. Ironically the bill’s death came on a day when a new national poll shows a majority of Americans are pro-life. Now you know what I mean by stupid.

If Hinkle is serious about not being angry, then I can't imagine what an "angry" Hinkle would say.

Rep. Cynthia Davis is upset too, and described the Senate Republicans as a bunch of used car dealers "rush[ed] to reach an 'accommodation' with Planned Parenthood and other anti-life advocates." She writes in this week's "Capitol Report":

Have you ever purchased a car from a dealer?  After doing our research, finding just the right car, feeling the optimism and the hope of trading up, we put down a deposit and made arrangements to pick up the new one.  When the day arrived we discovered the car was in an accident.  Someone took it out for a test drive and damaged it.  How would you feel if the dealer said you are still forced to buy it?  That is what happened to the Pro-Life bill this year.  It was damaged and no longer acceptable.  The House simply could not offer the citizens of Missouri a bill that had been wrecked by the Senate...

I am saddened that some of these elected officials act like they are doing Pro-Life advocates a great favor by bringing up Pro-Life legislation...

For a Pro-Life agenda to move forward in Missouri, it is vital that citizens be informed about what their elected representatives in the Missouri General Assembly are doing.  There must be accountability.  They must demand that Pro-Life legislation is passed rather than secretly scuttled or traded for other votes.  There is an old saying that in matters of fashion you can bend, but that in matters of conscience you must stand like a rock.  Calling one’s self Pro-Life, should not be a matter of political fashion to be put on at election time and discarded in the State Capitol.

As for the Missouri Right to Life, they say the House was right in rejecting the Senate bill, and are furious with the General Assembly for failing to pass their "primary pro-life bill" for the second year in a row.

Let's be clear: the "stupid" used car salesmen who "tossed a common sense pro-life bill aside like a dead carcass" and ceded control to the "anti-life tyrants" are every Republican Senator except for Dan Dan Clemens:

Not exactly a bunch of leftists.