Blunt Doesn't Support Contraception

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?

It's funny too, about American Viewpoint. They are based in D.C. and have done a lot of work on behalf of Republican candidates. Wow. Yeah, actually, they worked so much on Matt Blunt's campaign for governor that he's featured as a case study on their web site www.amview.com/amview_contents/stories/blunt.shtml

I guess he won't be able to say that it's a biased, liberal polling firm that came up with those numbers since he relied so heavily on the same firm to get elected. Bummer.

This governor is out-of-touch with Missouri values. Here's a man who talks on and on about the "culture of life," yet could care less about the living. Our legislature passes a law that has no chance of preventing abortion yet fails to even consider funding birth control and related prevention programs.

Touring the state touting his new bill, Blunt told supporters at the Cape Girardeau Crisis Pregnancy Center that teenagers should abstain from sex, according to the Southeast Missourian. How can this administration talk about abstinence, abstinence, abortion, abortion and fail to realize that they've excluded an entire step from the equation?