or 24, that abortion access is critical and it is one of th most important reasons for people to turn out and vote. we need to send a message to politicians that we re not going to take it anymore today the biden administration asked the supreme court to take emergenc action to stop a trump appointed judges ruling that would restrict access to mifepristone, one of the mos commonly used abortion drugs the restrictions were set to g into effect at one 8 am on saturday, but just hours after this protest, the supreme cour issued a five-day hold o restricting the availability o mifepristone justice samuel alito, th author of the dobbs decision stripping away the constitutional right to an abortion, ruled that access to mifepristone will remain statu quo until the supreme court ca make a final decision on wednesday. there is no guarantee that the supreme court will over turn the abortion pill restrictions beyond a five-day stay abortion advocates continue to fight republican oppo
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manufacture this problem t work up their base and then the defunding the libraries just feels like th next step to them and how they exert power and punish them fo exercising their first amendment rights it s out of a dystopian novel, in my opinion. katie, the majority o public libraries or in small and rural communities. describe how a budget cut like this would impact librarie like your own in cap girardeau. yes, jonathan, we are set t lose roughly $26,000 with this cut for our upcoming budge year that s money that we use for our collection development, to buy the books that you see behind me. and for us that makes up about 20% of our collectio development budget for us it s only 2% of our overall budget but for some libraries it s much larger percentage, a much larger impact that they re gonna have to withstand.
render it unenforceable. in response to those lawsuits, missouri state house republicans voted to advance a budget bill that would defun all of the states public libraries by cutting the fou point $5 million allocated b the governor for the state libraries. come on, now turning now, missour democratic state representativ peter meredith, also with us katie earnhardt, the directo of the cape girardeau public library in missouri. thank you both for being here. representative meredith, you r on the missouri house budget committee. what was your reaction to this budget proposal that seeks t essentially defund libraries that s, right even just hearing you talk about the facts right now, walk throug the circumstances, it s hard t believe. that s how we felt when it was first presented to us. when the budget chair presente his proposal that library fund be zeroed as and then we asked him why and he actually went t far as to explicitly say it wa