Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, characterized the delay as "standard-operating procedure" in abortion cases and said that it will only bolster the state's case.
"I feel like I'm talking to a clock that keeps on ticking because it has nothing to say," Jacob said at one point while engaging the bill's sponsor, Ted House, D-St. Charles, in a discussion over the true purpose of the legislation.
Meanwhile, supporters of an override, including Ted House of St. Charles, stood their ground and pushed for a vote -- a vote that is expected to override the governor's veto. The House has already overridden the veto, but with debate raging on in the Senate, no vote had been taken -- and there was no telling when one would take place.
"It is up to the governor to call a special session, but I think it would be a huge mistake for him to prolong this debate," said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles. "We've got a good bill and we spent a long time on it in May; let's vote on it and move on to more important issues facing the state."
Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles County, said bill proponents had been flexible regarding all the opponents' demands, but they would not budge on the health exemption.
Legislatures are not the only ones dealing with the consequences from the Senate. Cliff Graham and George Graver, two small grain and livestock farmers from Bowling Green, traveled to Jefferson City to talk about a farm bill with Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, and Sen. Joe Maxwell, D-Mexico.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, said he thinks women have been quite involved. House said women have spoken on the floor, and that everyone can come to strategy meetings.
"The purpose is to save children," said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles. But abortion rights supporters held a different view. "It's really about women and their ability to make decisions for themselves," said Sen. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City.
A bill sponsored by Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, if in effect this year, would have given the University an even larger slice of the higher education money pie.
A one-third majority of senators on both isles signed a petition to move the abortion debate to the senate floor. The democrat's top leader, Senator Ed Quick, says the four democrats that signed the petition were motivated by upcoming elections. But, Democrat Ted House of St. Charles, who is expected to present the petition, says not so.
"I expected this," said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, one of the bill's proponents. "It was assigned to an unfriendly committee, that doesn't represent the majority of either the House or the Senate."
A bill sponsored by Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, would require schools who teach sex education to stress abstinence first. House said his plan would also teach that abstinence is the only guaranteed way to avoid disease or pregnancy.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, creates the crime of "infanticide" and includes partial-birth abortion in the definition. "What we want to do is prohibit the killing of children while they're being born, so this is an approach that describes that as infanticide," House said.
"If the President of the United States doesn't get the message, some kid in a classroom isn't going to get it either," said the Columbia-area senator, who was criticized by fellow Senator Ted House, D-St. Charles, for his last minute attack on the bill Monday.
"There is new research and evidence that violent sexual acts are correlated with the use of pornography," said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles and sponsor of the bill. "Rapes, sexual assaults and murders have been linked to it."
She is co-sponsoring the bill with Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles County. Steelman, who attended the memorial, said she thinks there are enough votes this time to override the government's veto if it happens again.
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