Blunt calls lawmakers back for special session

Thursday, August 18, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday called lawmakers into a Sept. 6 special session to impose new restrictions on abortions, but he set forth a narrow agenda that likely would prevent passage of a proposed ban on certain stem cell research.

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