Republican mega-donor demands Missouri Gov. Parson veto eight-week abortion ban

[Sherman A1]

One of the most prolific donors in Missouri Republican politics is calling on Gov. Mike Parson to veto wide-ranging legislation that criminalizes abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy.

Joplin businessman David Humphreys said Thursday that he’s never entered the public debate over abortion, and doesn’t “really want to now.”

But the bill approved by lawmakers last week, which provides no exemptions for victims of rape or incest, “is bad public policy and bad for Missourians,” Humphreys said in an email to The Star.

“While I am personally opposed to abortion, I do support a woman’s right to choose, particularly in the case of rape or incest,” he said. “And I have to believe that the politicians in Jeff City that voted for this bill would themselves support their wives or daughters’ right to choose if their loved ones were raped.”

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article230737279.html?

[JDC]

1. While totally in agreement on this particular donor's voew

We must get money out of politics. We hear about and agree with this one, but the fact that a donor makes or breaks a law, of any kind, is about as corrupt a process as I can think of.