MRL Legislative Update

PLAN NOW TO ATTEND PRO-LIFE ACTION DAY 
IN JEFFERSON CITY
APRIL 5 Please print off the “Show Me Life” Action Day flyer and distribute to your pro-life friends, family and church members.
​http://missourilife.org/assets/lobby_day_flyer2016.pdf
NOTE:  
BUDGET BILLS WILL MOVE TO HOUSE FLOOR FOR DEBATE IN COMING WEEKS.  Pro-Life Issues we are working on for these bills: 

• Protective language on Dept. of Economic Development bill to prevent public monies from being used for research on aborted babies, human cloning and embryos.
• Alternative to Abortion Funding
• Show-Me Health Babies Program
• Redirecting Federal Family Planning Dollars to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC’s) for a broader range of healthcare for women

TAKE NOTE……
MRL Neutral on “Raise Your Hands for Kids” Tobacco Tax Initiative
Pro-Life Protections are in the Language of the Initiative.
Click Here to Read MRL Press Release: http://www.missouririghttolife.org/legislation/2016/press2016-0204.html
2016 Priority Legislation:

• Expanding Abortion Clinic Inspections, Accountability for Disposal of Baby Body Parts,  Ensure no selling or buying of baby body parts is happening in Missouri from in state abortion clinics, and ensure that any publicly funded state institution is not buying baby body parts from out of state abortion clinics with our tax dollars, Accountability for licensing of abortionists and abortion facilities as well as oversight of connections between abortion facilities and public institutions.
• Ban Dismemberment Abortions.
• Defund Planned Parenthood.

Bills to Watch in 2016:
(click here for full list of bills)