Missouri Right to Life
Press Release For Immediate Release April 25, 2024 For Information: 573-635-5110 Missouri General Assembly Sends HB 2634 to Governor Parson for Signature, Defunding Abortion Providers and Their Affiliates The following statement is from Susan Klein, Executive Director of Missouri Right to Life: Today, May 25, 2024, the Missouri General Assembly truly agreed to and finally passed HB 2634, putting in statute language that restricts tax-payer funds from going to abortion providers and their affiliates. Prior to 2020, Missouri restricted family planning funds to abortion providers through the budget process. In 2020, Planned Parenthood and others filed suit against that defunding process and the Missouri Supreme Court agreed that it was unconstitutional but also stated that the defunding could be done by placing the pro-life protective language in statute. Since then, the legislature has attempted to use different language in the budget which has all been found unconstitutional. This year, HB 2634 contained pro-life language to be placed in statute. In December, Project Veritas filmed Planned Parenthood employees stating that they would take minor girls across state lines for abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. In February, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Planned Parenthood for violations of Missouri laws. In their just released 2022-2023 annual report, Planned Parenthood reported total income of over 2 billion dollars. For the year the annual report covers, Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions, or about 4 in 10 abortions, and abortions outnumbered prenatal care 62 to 1. In addition, Planned Parenthood boosted its abortion numbers by facilitating “transportation and travel support, financial assistance, and referrals.” Pro-life Missourians are grateful to House Sponsor, Representative Cody Smith and Senate Handler, Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman and the Missouri legislators who voted for protecting our firmly held beliefs in the sanctity of human life and prohibiting our tax-dollars from subsidizing the destruction of innocent unborn babies. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote truthful ballot language. He was sued by the pro-abortion petitioner. The Ballow Summary Language was re-written by the Courts. Please click the link to find each portion broken down to show the truth of what is being voted on.
www.nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2024/04/missouri-decline-to-sign/ Pro-Abortion Forces Have Filed Initiatives to Enshrine a Right to Abortion in Our Missouri Constitution
Your Voice Is Needed to Defend Life: A public comment period is open through the Office of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft for each of these 11 Initiative Petitions (IPs) that have been filed by pro-abortion forces to enshrine a right to abortion in our Missouri Constitution. Your pro-life comments are extremely important! The public comment period closes March 22, 2023. (click here for more info) On Wednesday, March 8th, MRL will host Keep Missouri Pro-Life Action Day at the capitol building in Jefferson City.
(click below for more info.) missourilife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/lobby_day2023_flyer.pdf January 19-21 - Washington DC - March for Life, Buses depart from several locations throughout the St. Louis area. Open for ages 7-107. For more information and to register online visit: www.MissouriLifeCaravan.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The first March for Life since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade will take place on January 20, 2023. For the first time since the annual human rights gathering began, states are free to pass their own pro-life laws.
And Washington, D.C.’s draconian mask and abortion-tainted vaccine mandates are in the rear view mirror (for now). Click here for a list of events surrounding the 2023 March for Life. Please note some require advance registration. CVS, Walgreens announce plans to dispense abortion pill after Biden FDA loosens restrictions1/13/2023
(LifeSiteNews) – Following the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) loosening abortion pill distribution regulations, America’s top pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens announced their plans to dispense the lethal drugs.
On Tuesday, the FDA updated its website to reflect new guidelines on abortion pill access, which now allows retail pharmacies to carry mifepristone which, used alongside misoprostol, causes the deaths of unborn babies at early stages of development. Pharmacies can become certified to distribute the drug by completing an agreement form, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews. (read more) WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Tuesday, January 3rd, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated labeling for mifepristone (generic for Mifeprex) that would allow pharmacies (both online and brick and mortar) to dispense the drug.
In issuing the new regulations, the FDA formalized a decision made in 2021 to permanently drop the in-person requirement for the distribution of the abortion pill. “The abortion industry wants to put at risk perfectly healthy mothers who are pregnant with perfectly healthy babies,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “None of these changes make this process safer for the woman. What these changes do is make the process easier and cheaper for the abortion industry.” (read more) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is altering patient safety information regarding a popular oral contraceptive in response to pro-life objections that it can end pregnancy.
Only days ago, the “morning after” pill, Plan B One-Step, was known to damage a woman’s uterine lining, preventing a developing baby from implanting in the womb. In other words, the drug could cause an abortion. However, FDA now says Plan B One-Step does not have abortifacient potential after all. That’s because the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end federal protections for abortion in June, and Plan B’s former product labeling has proven confusing to customers, says FDA. Updates to the labeling are intended to “reduce barriers to use of the legally marketed approved product,” reads an agency statement. It’s convenient timing: SCOTUS hands down a ruling that affects sales of a pharmaceutical drug, so FDA swoops in to save the day. Plan B One-Step is a pill that women can take within 72 hours of intercourse to prevent pregnancy. It releases a synthetic hormone, levonorgestrel, which discourages ovulation — the release of an egg from an ovary. According to product literature, that is one way in which it acts to inhibit a woman from becoming pregnant. Additionally, per Mosby’s annual Nursing Drug Reference manual, the medication also alters a woman’s uterine lining to prevent a pregnancy from developing. The uterine damage affects pregnancy post-fertilization (i.e., after conception, when a new life already exists). This abortifacient potential is characteristic of all progestins — of which levonorgestrel is one example — and has been recognized since the drug came into widespread medical use in the early 1970s. (link to full article) |
Contact your elected officials Senator Josh Hawley 212 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 202-224-6154 www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley Senator Eric Schmitt 260 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202-224-5721 www.schmitt.senate.gov/contact/ Representative Ann Wagner 2350 Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 225-1621 wagner.house.gov/contact Washington Missouri Office 516 Jefferson Street Washington, MO 63090 (636) 231-1001 Click here to find your House Representative
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