Missouri - with a Statehouse Packed with Pro-Life People - Couldn't Pass Pro-Life Legislation

Atrios' pinch hitters also bring us this, which is perplexing but hopeful:

``I am profoundly disappointed in the leaders of Missouri Right to Life for their efforts to defeat two good pro-life bills that would have become the law and protected the lives of unborn children but for the group's tragic and bizarre tactic of working against pro-life legislation,''[Governor] Blunt said in a statement announcing the special session.

Anti-abortion lawmakers claim 128 of the 162 House seats and 28 of the 34 Senate seats.

``We have the largest pro-life bipartisan majority ever elected, and they could not get pro-life legislation through, and this to me is attributable to Governor Blunt,'' Missouri Right to Life President Pam Fichter declared.

Anti-abortion groups asserted the failed legislation did not go far enough in its abortion restrictions. A broader bill previously passed in the Senate had been pared back in a House committee at Blunt's urging; a separate House-passed bill was similarly scaled back in a Senate Committee.

Are they going to begin eating themselves? One can hope.