the state which does abortions which is planned parent hood clinic. abortion, of course, is legal in this country. access to it is constitutionally protected right in this country. but missouri s republican state government want to try to find away around that inconvenient fact. they want to find a way to effectively ban abortion in that state by putting every abortion provider that remains in the state out of business using state regulations. they want to use state regulations under the direction of the state health director to regulate the last clinic in the state in such a way it loses its license and is forced to close. that s how they re trying to limit access to abortion in missouri. and that s what these hearings have been about all week. and the state health director confirmed that, yeah, he actually has been tracking womens menstrual periods on a spreadsheet. and you ll see here that it includes the patient i.d. number, date of procedure, gestational age, right, and the
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, 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 the state which does abortions which is planned parent hood clinic. abortion, of course, is legal in this country. access to it is constitutionally protected right in this country. but missouri s republican state government want to try to find away around that inconvenient facts. they want to find
and now belgian officials say the ringleader s cousin contacted them after the attack. the cousin was killed in a police raid. the belgian citizen is held on charges of taking part in terrorist murders. his name has not yet been released. new information on a man accused of killing throw people in a planned parent hood clinic. robert gear demanded he be allowed to move forward and representing himself. they are reporting live from denver. what are we seeing there. hi, lea. the district drug is ordering a comtency evaluation. he enterrupted the judge and saying, the question is, do i
shootings like this than ever before from whether this was a workplace dispute, whether it was fuelled by international terrorism. last week suggesting a planned parent hood clinic was fuelled by other political motivations. it seems to me law enforcement s job gets tougher and tougher by the day. we got to get the politics out to the greatest extent we can. last summer it was police motivation and people were taking shots at police about why they have to have all this equipment on the hardware. the mast response of swat people. there s no question about it. they re involved in drug raids but this underscores whether we like it or not, this is the environment we re in. by the way, how many saw the coverage live not looking at the military vehicles and going back to the criticism of ferguson
overcharged. ultrasounds made to look larger. he was charging people who he felt had money. you walked in with a nice purse he was going to charge you a lot o of months of private sector. i a lot of money. mike: the unborn child is not the only victim here. the women seeking the abortion are often desperate when they walk in the door. they are in pain and hurting. scared. maybe been pushed by a boyfriend or husband or a family. you see them, i certainly do as a victim as well? absolutely. they are lied too to, tricked, manipulated and coyersed not just coerced. not just by people in their lives but the abortion staff. i can t tell you how many thousands of women i coerced into having an abortion because i felt like that was the best decision for them. mike: were you selling them on the idea of the abortion? you were 59 a planned parent hood clinic and a lot of tax