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 tr
this week you might have seen this headline floating around. kansas city star headlines don t always go national, but no matter what paper it s from, no matter what part of the country it s from, a headline like this is going to go national and get some national attention. as you can see the headline there is, quote, missouri health director kept spreadsheet of planned parenthood patients periods. let me read that one more time. the missouri health director kept a spreadsheet of womens periods. and if you re thinking that can t be right, maybe this is punctuation issue. maybe it got typoed as semicolons and somebody made it into periods. this is for real. the health director there has been tracking womens periods on a computer spreadsheet as part