State Capital Bureau Anti-abortion supporters are one step closer to banning partial birth abortions in Missouri. Naomi Smith has the story from Jefferson City.
The Senate Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly passed a bill to ban partial birth abortion procedures. Partial birth abortion, also called D & X or D & E, is an abortion in which fetuses 20 weeks to 40 weeks old are delivered then killed after a partial delivery.
Committee chair John Schneider says the bill prohibits deliberately killing babies that are already born.
Governor Carnahan says Missouri law already prohibits partial birth abortions and that the bill is political.
From the state capitol, I'm Naomi Smith.