Consider the following, from the 2011 legislative session:

HB 28: and you thought the era of wedge issue politics was over (December 4, 2010)

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 28

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SATER.

[….]

….No licensed pharmacy in this state shall be required to perform, assist, recommend, refer to, or participate in any act or service in connection with any drug or device that is an abortifacient, including but not limited to the RU486 drug and emergency contraception such as the Plan B drug….

And this, from the 2014 legislative session:

SB 519, HB 1307, HB 1313: wait, wait, wait (January 12, 2014)

Abortion legislation prefiled on December 1, 2013:

SB 519 Amends the current waiting period for having an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours

Sponsor: Sater

LR Number: 4423S.03I Fiscal Note available

Committee: Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence

Last Action: 1/9/2014 – Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Journal Page: S64

[emphasis added]

12/1/2013 Prefiled

1/8/2014 S First Read–SB 519-Sater S35

1/9/2014 Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee S64

[….]

It’s the same individual and the same wedge issue, just in different chambers of the General Assembly.

Now consider this:

March 10 2014 12:16 PM

Republican Who Blamed Pregnant Rape Victims for Not Taking Plan B Tried to Restrict Plan B Access

By Amanda Marcotte

….The latest entrant is Missouri state legislator David Sater, who is sponsoring a bill that would extend the waiting period for an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours. Naturally, there’s no rape exception, and naturally, Sater’s got some strong words about the irresponsibility of rape victims to justify not including one. “If a woman decides not to go to the hospital and not get the ‘Plan B,’ they’re making a decision to keep that child if they get pregnant,” he said. “If the woman found out she was pregnant three or four weeks down the line, they had made the decision not to do some preventative things like Plan B….”

….Sater may believe that women need to be swift in their Plan B procurement, but he also apparently thinks that it should be very difficult for women to procure Plan B. In 2010, Sater sponsored a bill that would allow pharmacies not to stock emergency contraception if they don’t want to and prevent women-presumably including rape victims-from suing pharmacies for not doing so. So, rape victims: You’re expected to get it together so quickly post-rape that you don’t forget to take emergency contraception, even though you’re not allowed to expect any pharmacies to actually stock the stuff….

[emphasis added]

Think about that. Senator David Sater (r) believes that the waiting period for an abortion should be extended from 24 to 72 hours. And he also believes that there should be no exception for rape victims because it’s up to them to immediately access and use “Plan B”. He also believes that “Plan B” access should be limited. That’s not consistency, that’s not logic, that’s our right wingnut republican controlled General Assembly in action.

Is anyone really surprised?

Oh, by the way, Senator Sater (r) is a pharmacist:

….Senator Sater is a native of Barry County where he owned and operated Sater Pharmacy for almost thirty years. He is a 1972 graduate of the University Missouri – Kansas City School of Pharmacy….

Introduced today in the Missouri Senate:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 183

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SATER.

Read 1st time January 22, 2013, and ordered printed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

0699S.02I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 576, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the offense of unlawful search, with a penalty provision.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 576, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 576.175, to read as follows:

576.175. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term “government officer” shall mean a person who is:

(1) An officer, employee, or agent of the federal or state government, or any political subdivision thereof;

(2) Acting under a contract with the federal or state government, or a political subdivision thereof, to provide security or law enforcement services; or

(3) Acting under color of federal, state, or local law.

2. A person commits the offense of unlawful search if such person is a government officer and, as part of a determination of whether to grant another person access to a publicly accessible venue or form of transportation, such person intentionally and without probable cause:

(1) Touches the anus, breast, buttocks, or sexual organ of the other person, including touching through clothing;

(2) Removes a child younger than eighteen years of age from the physical custody or control of a parent, guardian of the child, or a person standing in the stead of a parent or guardian of the child;

(3) Otherwise engages in conduct constituting an offense under subdivision (5) of subsection 1 of section 565.070; or

(4) Harasses, delays, coerces, threatens, intimidates, or effectively denies or conditions access to the venue or form of transportation because of the person’s refusal to consent to any of the actions described in this subsection.

3. The offense of unlawful search is a class A misdemeanor.

[emphasis in original]

“…Removes a child younger than eighteen years of age from the physical custody or control of a parent, guardian of the child, or a person standing in the stead of a parent or guardian of the child…”

“…or effectively denies or conditions access to the venue or form of transportation because of the person’s refusal to consent to any of the actions described in this subsection…”

If you won’t go through a scanner and if you won’t consent to a search the TSA isn’t going to let you on the plane. Uh, generally, air travel falls under interstate commerce. And that’s when the supremacy clause kicks in:

In the United States Constitution, Article VI:

….This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding….

Jobs bill? What jobs bill?

Rex’s right wingnut seven.

This past weekend at the Missouri Ethics’s Commission:

C121090 06/29/2012 CITIZENS FOR ED EMERY Missouri Club for Growth P O Box 2068 St Louis MO 63158 6/29/2012 $40,000.00

C111070 06/29/2012 SATER FOR SENATE Missouri Club for Growth Board PAC P O Box 2068 St Louis MO 63158 6/29/2012 $10,000.00

C111154 06/30/2012 DOUG LIBLA FOR SENATE Missouri Club for Growth P O Box 2068 St Louis MO 63158 5/29/2012 $10,000.00

C010450 06/30/2012 LEMBKE FOR SENATE Missouri Club for Growth PO Box 2068 St Louis MO 63158 6/29/2012 $10,000.00

C051254 06/30/2012 MCGHEE FOR SENATE Missouri Club for Growth P.O. Box 2068 St Louis MO 63158 6/29/2012 $40,000.00

C051162 07/01/2012 FRIENDS OF ELLEN BRANDOM Missouri Club for Growth PO Box 2068 StLouis MO 63158 6/29/2012 $40,000.00

C041065 07/01/2012 FRIENDS OF WARD FRANZ Missouri Club For Growth P.O. Box 2068 Saint Louis MO 63158 6/30/2012 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $160,000.00.

What about Gary Romine (r)? Well, it’s possible that the check is in the mail.

Previously: Campaign Finance: somebody doesn’t like Sen. David Pearce (r) (June 30, 2012)  

HB1778 (Organ Donor Awareness Day) passed 141-7 with 7 Republicans (Cynthia Davis, Ed Emery, Doug Ervin, Tim Flook, David Sater, Rodney Schad, Bryan Stevenson) voting Nay.

There’s diminishing returns and all in the reaction for these things. But apparently that was the time to make a stand against the tyranny of the government making people aware of organ donation.