he's the health director so maybe this is something about colons and it got typoed as semicolons and somebody made it into periods. this is for real. in the republican led missouri state government the health director there has been tracking womens periods on a computer spreadsheet as part of his government job, which means taxpayers have been paying him to do that. reporter crystal thomas from the kansas city star was able to get that story this week because she was in the courtroom for an ongoing hearing. sort of like a court proceeding, it's an administrative hearing going on all week. it's about the efforts of that state health director which you see here and the state government for which he works, their efforts to try to shutdown the last remaining abortion provider in the entire state of missouri. the republican led state government in missouri is trying to make that state the first state in america to go completely dark in terms of access to abortion. and they're doing it by trying to shutdown the last clinic in