Longtime
#prolife
lobbyist @ MO State Capitol. Catholic deacon in St. Louis. Delighted being husband, dad & PawPaw. Love sharing what I read - news, blogs, etc.
St. Louis judge blocks
@STLCityGov
from spending federal pandemic relief dollars to support abortion.
It’s part of a suit former AG
@Eric_Schmitt
filed after Mayor
@Tishaura
Jones signed a bill to create the “Reproductive Equity Fund”.
#MOLeg
#ProLife
Also, the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019 rejected a legal challenge to an informed consent abortion law from a self-described Satanic Temple adherent who claimed the state violated her religious beliefs.
Missouri voters who regret signing – or mistakenly signed – the abortion petition, can legally withdraw their signature (section 116.110, RSMo). Click on the link, fill in the info and send it to
@MissouriSOS
.
Don’t wait!
#WithdrawSignature
today!
#MOLeg
Thank you,
@GovParsonMO
, for approving $8.66 million for Alternatives to Abortion programs. Numerous non-profit and faith-based pregnancy centers and maternity homes in Missouri can now serve more pregnant and new moms and their children – born and unborn!
#MOLeg
#MOGov
#ProLife
Missouri statewide elected officials: Everyone should
#DeclineToSign
an extreme anti-woman initiative petition. Keep it off the ballot!
Voters should not sign their rights & freedoms away for themselves & future generations!
#ProtectWomen
#MOLeg
#MOGov
After pro-life former Missouri AG
@Eric_Schmitt
sued St. Louis City and a St. Louis judge then barred the city from using taxpayers’ dollars for out-of-state abortion travel, city officials decide to now use the money to support new moms and babies.
#MOLeg
The truth always comes out!
The real reason abortion businesses and abortion groups are trying to forcibly inject unlimited abortion into the Missouri Constitution is because of ...
... the money – “clinic revenue”!
#MOLeg
#FollowTheMoney
#AbortionScam
“We want people to
#DeclineToSign
,”
@SamuelHLee
said. “Frankly, they don’t get the signatures by May 5, then it’s not gonna be on the ballot.”
Lee said, “abortion politics should not be injected into our constitution in this way.”
#MOLeg
#GenerationLife
Missouri needs initiative petition reform so that the majority doesn't trample on the rights of the minority!
A vote of 50% plus 1 shouldn’t be permitted to amend the constitution to take our rights away.
#TyrannyOfTheMajority
#JamesMadison
#MOLeg
#HJR72
WATCH: People with Down syndrome condemn abortion. “My Life Matters” they say, as the 8th Circuit considers whether Missouri and other states can protect unborn babies with disabilities from discrimination.
@LifeNewsHQ
@AGEricSchmitt
#MyLifeMatters
#MOLeg
“Our moms find that it’s difficult to find a job that pays a livable wage, impossible to find a home they can afford and impossible to find child care, never mind child care that’s affordable,” said Valerie Harkins, director of the Maternity ...
#MOLeg
Sam Lee with Campaign Life Missouri thinks the “best approach” for
#MOLeg
on pro-life legislation is to “include compassion ... pregnant mothers should be offered services and help free of charge so they feel like they have the option to continue carrying their child.”
He and
The Biden Administration wants to cut federal TANF funds to Missouri non-profit agencies that provide shelter to homeless, pregnant moms.
Pro-abortion groups – like
@AbortionAction
– say they favor denying funding to these agencies!
#MOLeg
#ProtectWomen
@AbbyJohnson
said she believes she’s a testament to the power of conversion, and that no one — not even someone who works at Planned Parenthood, as she did for eight years — is beyond the power of Jesus Christ. |
#CatholicSTL
@ProLifeSTL
With dysfunction in two abortion camps, ballot initiatives stall. “They will have a hard time convincing heavy hitters to finance their efforts.”
“Meanwhile, all pro-life groups in Missouri are united” to stop abortion being added to constitution.
#MOLeg
@JayAshcroftMO
condemns ruling on abortion initiative petitions and vows to appeal:
“We will not stand idly by while the courts hide the effects of this amendment and mislead the people as to what they may very well be voting on next year. ...
#MOLeg
Pro-life Missouri
@AGAndrewBailey
says state’s lawsuit against dangerous abortion drug will continue, despite
#SCOTUS
ruling.
“We are moving forward undeterred with our litigation to protect both women and their unborn children,” Bailey said.
#MOLeg
#Prolife
#MOSenate
budget chair Sen.
@LincolnHough
:
“Missouri has already defunded Planned Parenthood and since I’ve been the appropriations chair, there have been no dollars reimbursed to a Planned Parenthood facility from the state.”
#MOLeg
#HB2634
Activist judges ban pro-life
@MissouriSOS
@JayAshcroftMO
from telling voters in ballot summary that laws protecting “right to life” of “unborn child” will be nullified by pro-abortion ballot measures. Court says it’s “partisan.” SOS vows to appeal.
#MOLeg
A ballot measure would enshrine Missouri’s current
#prolife
law in the state constitution.
The ballot summary asks voters to decide if the constitution should “guarantee abortion laws protect pregnant mothers from serious risks to life or health.”
#MOLeg
.
@StLouisReview
reports:
Pro-life advocates continue working hard with “Decline to Sign” efforts.
Meanwhile, pro-abortion groups are still trying to collect signatures to place proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot.
#MOLeg
#MOStandsWithWomen
Solid journalism by Gray TV’s Missouri Capitol Bureau Chief
@JoeMcLeanNews
, reporting for
@KCTV5
:
‘Missouri is not Ohio’: Opponents predict 2024 abortion rights measures will fail in Missouri.
#MOLeg
#MOGov
Supporters of
@Missourians4CF
’s initiative petition to alter Missouri’s constitution finally admit what it’s really all about — forcing Missouri taxpayers to pay for everyone else’s abortions!
#DeclineToSign
!
Stop
#MOLeg
politicians money grab!
#DefundPP
Thank you
@GovParsonMO
&
#MOLeg
!
“We’ve ended all elective abortions in this state, approved new support for mothers, expecting mothers, and children, and with this bill, ensured that we are not sending taxpayer dollars to abortion providers,” Parson said.
Thank you, Budget Chairman
@Cody4MO
and
#MOHouse
, for adding $2 million in grants to pregnancy resource centers that help pregnant and new moms and babies – born and unborn.
On top of the existing $8.66 million,
#HB11
includes the largest
#prolife
appropriation ever by
#MOLeg
!
Missouri judge cancels ballot summaries written by pro-life
@MissouriSOS
@JayAshcroftMO
that accurately inform voters on six pro-abortion initiative petitions, by deleting truthful phrases like “end the life,” “unborn child” and “the right to life.”
#MOLeg
June 22, 2023 – the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher – marks the beginning of
#ReligiousFreedomWeek
. Today, we pray, reflect and act on the importance of protecting church buildings and other sacred worship spaces in the U.S.
@USCCBFreedom
After reading all six of the newly filed pro-abortion initiative petitions to amend Missouri's Constitution, it is clear all six would allow abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Each says there is a “fundamental right” to abortion when there is risk to a
This is a correct interpretation of Missouri law – which by statute has never equated Plan B, IUD’s, birth control pills, etc., as abortion procedures to be regulated:
“Missouri AG says state abortion ban does not prohibit Plan B or contraception”
#MOLeg
Missouri judge prohibits telling voters in ballot summaries that constitutional amendment would allow killing an “unborn child” up until birth.
@MissouriSOS
is also banned from saying it allows “dangerous, unregulated, and unrestricted abortions.”
#MOLeg
Great Op-Ed in the
@KCStar
:
“I am proudly
#prolife
, but the idea of criminalizing women who get an abortion breaks my heart. This harmful idea in no way reflects the beliefs of the vast majority of pro-life supporters in Missouri or across the nation.”
Sen.
@HawleyMO
demands answers after Google blocks pro-life ads from
@LiveAction
. “It’s extreme and unprecedented bias in support of the abortion industry,” Live Action President
@LilaGraceRose
said.
#MOLeg
#MOSenate
Emerging Issues Committee holding 9:30AM hearing on Tuesday, April 16 on
@Koenig4MO
’s
#SB1459
.
It’s an attempt to stop
@Missourians4CF
’s “reproductive freedom” amendment from creating a right of children to undergo sex change operations.
#MOLeg
You be the judge, but after reading the comments that veteran reporter
@bshelly
heard from pro-abortion groups, it sounds like they either don’t want – or aren’t prepared to have – an abortion initiative petition on the ballot in Missouri in 2024.
#MOLeg
#MOLeg
#ProtectGirls
Boone County, Mo., Circuit Court judge rules that
@AGAndrewBailey
’s lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for
#trafficking
#minors
out of state to obtain abortions without parental consent can proceed:
“The Court has cleared the way for my lawsuit against
Any bills to authorize murder charges against women who undergo abortions are dead on arrival.
I’ve killed lots of bills in my 40 years as a pro-life lobbyist and I guarantee they’ll be LOTS of pro-life lawmakers in both chambers who’ll kill these.
#MOLeg
One way supporters & opponents of legal protection for the unborn can work together post-
#Dobbs
is through
#bipartisan
ending of unwanted & coerced abortion.
Here’s a helpful framework on how it can be done in
#MOLeg
& elsewhere.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
Very disturbing news. The Missouri Supreme Court is forcing Missouri taxpayers to fund Planned Parenthood's abortion facility & to promote the work of the abortion industry. This has serious repercussions.
#MOLeg
@cody4mo
@RobertRossMO
BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court weighs in favor of Planned Parenthood, in its quest to seek more than $1 million in Medicaid payments from the state.
#moleg
#mogov
Bills making abortion murder “don’t have the backing of at least one prominent anti-abortion lobbyist in Jefferson City, Sam Lee. One of the state’s top anti-abortion groups,
@MORightToLife
, also opposed a nearly identical bill” last session.
#MOLeg
Child care tax relief is on Missouri’s August 6 ballot as Amendment 1.
Samuel Lee with Campaign Life Missouri said his group supports this “
#prolife
, pro-family, pro-workforce development” ballot measure.
#YesOnAmendment1
#MOLeg
#MOGov
Missouri’s ‘abortion homicide’ bill opposed by pro-life group. The bill would allow murder charges against mothers who get abortions.
It is opposed by some of Missouri’s most vocal pro-life advocates, including Campaign Life Missouri.
#MOLeg
By a bipartisan vote of 117-26, the
#MOHouse
passed a bill to provide healthcare coverage to low-income mothers for one year after birth, instead of the current 60 days.
Rep.
@MStinnettSWMO
, R-Springfield, carried the bills in the House.
#MOLeg
#ProLife
Thank you, pro-life
@GovParsonMO
and
#MOLeg
, for approving appropriations in
#HB2011
of $8.66 million for Alternatives to Abortion services and public awareness; $2 million to promote and facilitate adoptions, maternity homes and organizations providing material support and ...
Pro-life
@GovParsonMO
allocated $266,000 that Missouri lawmakers appropriated for a new marketing campaign to promote the free resources through the state’s Alternatives to Abortion program, whose agencies offer numerous services from child care and housing, to parenting and job
“As a black woman, I sincerely appreciate that DFLA’s mission, to preserve life from womb to tomb, includes an understanding and focus on racial injustices and the needs of minority communities,” said Monica Sparks, president of
@DemsForLife
.
Thank you
@cody4mo
&
#MOHouse
for voting overwhelmingly to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest provider and promoter of abortions in the U.S.
Now it’s up to
#MOSenate
to protect taxpayers by passing the bill & getting it to
@GovParsonMO
’s desk.
#MOLeg
Thank you
#MOLeg
for $8.66 million in funding for Alternatives to Abortion – a $2.2 million increase – and the largest appropriation ever! And thank you for $0 in funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations.
#ProLife
#HB3011
@cody4mo
#DanHegeman
“As Attorney General, I’ve tirelessly fought to uphold the sanctity of life in Missouri,”
@Eric_Schmitt
said. “The move by the City of St. Louis to use taxpayer dollars to help push out-of-state abortions plainly and clearly violates Missouri law.”
#MOLeg
In a speech to a family association Saturday,
#PopeFrancis
again stressed that God's vision of the family is between a man & a woman, & compared the
#abortion
of children who are sick or disabled to a Nazi mentality.
#ProLife
#ProtectFamilies
Great job by Maria Lanahan of
@AGAndrewBailey
’s Office arguing that laws on murder and polygamy and Sunday “blue laws” are not unconstitutional because they coincide with some religious beliefs. The same is true with abortion laws, Lanahan said.
#MOLeg
Why Columbia, Mo. voter told
@MissouriSOS
to
#WithdrawSignature
:
“I let a very pushy person with a petition make me feel like I needed to sign. Immediately after, all the reasons not to sign flooded my head. Someone needs to speak for the unborn.”
#MOLeg
Activists “spent the past two months talking about ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage only because stoking fear about women with legitimate medical needs is far more politically palatable than demanding unlimited abortion without apology” –
@xan_desanctis
The
@AP
’s
@esballentine
is on top of the decidedly lackluster fundraising by two competing pro-abortion groups wanting to add a right to abortion to the Missouri Constitution. One group has $0 cash on hand and the other roughly $61,000.
#MOLeg
Proposed federal law would prohibit organ transplant discrimination of children with
#DownSyndrome
or other disabilities. In 2020,
@LaurenArthurMO
worked with
@WielandNow
to help
#MOLeg
pass a bill to end this discriminatory practice in Missouri.
#ProLife
#DeclineToSign
#ProtectWomen
#ProtectKids
#MOLeg
#MOGov
Missouri’s Catholic bishops are urging Missourians to withhold their signatures from a currently circulating petition seeking to ensure nearly unrestricted access to abortion through an amendment to the state’s
Teen pro-life advocate Hope Miller inspired thousands of Missourians to fight for “the beauty and dignity of all human life” during the annual MidWest March for Life at the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo.
#MOLeg
@LifeNewsHQ
“Abortion supporters have responded to this possibility [of Roe overturned] with a spate of violent attacks across the country: against churches, against pregnancy-help centers, against
#SCOTUS
justices apparently poised to issue this ruling—
@xan_desanctis
Former Planned Parenthood director
@AbbyJohnson
, who became
#ProLife
, is the subject if a new film. After she left
@PPact
, Johnson has led And Then There Were None (
@ATTWNministry
), which assists workers who desire to leave the
#abortion
industry.
Very glad that
#MOHouse
Rep. Bob Titus listened to the concerns of fellow
#prolife
Missourians, and has withdrawn HB 1508 – a bill to allow women who undergo abortion to be charged with murder and be punished by the death penalty or life in prison.
#MOLeg
Supermajorities of Americans believe unborn children have rights, including the right to be born (80%), the right to be protected from violence or assault (89%), and the right to be protected against substance abuse (90%).
@xan_desanctis
@NRO
@AUL
@Abp_Rozanski
: don’t add abortion to MO constitution under guise of freedom:
“Freedom for what? Freedom for parents to kill their children, rather than help them grow. Freedom for the powerful to eliminate the vulnerable, rather than lift them up.”
#MOLeg
Grateful that
@GovParsonMO
signed
#postpartum
extension into law!
All Missouri moms are now guaranteed much-needed healthcare for at least one year after birth.
One of the most important bills that passed
#MOLeg
this year – with huge bipartisan support!
#ProLife
#MaternalHealth
Pro-life organizations are ramping up their efforts in a post-Roe world. This includes LifeHouse, a residence for up to 18 homeless pregnant women, and Healthy Moms/Healthy Babies – both operated by Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri (
@CCSOMO
).
#MOLeg
#MOLeg
’s
@RepKeriIngle
says the quiet part out loud.
The extreme initiative funded by out-of-state special interests is intended to force Missouri taxpayers to fund abortion as a method of birth control and is a pilfering of public funds by abortion businesses.
#DeclineToSign
“You all know that November is coming and this bill will not matter,” said
@RepKeriIngle
. “Women of this state are going to come in full force and demand their rights back.”
#moleg
Tackling Missouri’s
#childcare
provider shortage is a bipartisan priority in Jefferson City.
#MOLeg
measure would give tax relief to child care providers.
Amendment 1 is one path to increasing availability of child care.
#VoteYesOnAmendment1
#ProLife