Blunt pushes new policy on inmate abortions

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt's administration is pushing ahead with its legal defense of a new policy effectively prohibiting most inmate abortions, despite a Supreme Court decision specifically allowing one Missouri inmate to get an abortion.

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