Posted on 05/16/2019 8:50:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Missouri's Senate has passed a bill that would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy or later, except in cases of medical emergency. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.
It's the latest in a series of sweeping abortion restrictions passed by Republican-controlled state Legislatures aimed at pushing abortion challenges to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The measure, which saw a series of changes before passage, will now return to the state House. If approved there, it would head to the desk of Republican Gov. Mike Parson.
"Thanks to the leaders in the House and Senate, we have the opportunity to be one of the strongest pro-life states in the country," Parson said on Wednesday.
The bill passed the Senate early Thursday morning in a 24-to-10 vote, as NPR member station St. Louis Public Radio reported.
The text states that performing abortions in violation of the measure would be considered a felony. The legislation states that "any person who knowingly performs or induces an abortion of an unborn child in violation of this subsection shall be guilty of a class B felony, as well as subject to suspension or revocation of his or her professional license." Women who receive abortions would not be prosecuted.
In addition to having no exceptions for rape or incest, the bill also bans all abortions because of race, sex or a diagnosis of Down syndrome.
As St. Louis Public Radio reported, Democrats succeeded in changing a provision that would have required in most cases that the second parent be notified before a minor has an abortion. "Now, that second-parent notification only applies to the 'parent of a minor who has been awarded joint legal custody or joint physical custody' by a court," the member station writes.
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If this, and Alabama, et al, makes it to the Supreme Court, this will start a legal battle the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Stand ready.
Personally, I wish the SCOTUS would decide this for us today.
“If this, and Alabama, et al, makes it to the Supreme Court, this will start a legal battle the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Stand ready.”
Democrats are in a pickle here. If they take this to SCOTUS and lose(which they will) they would be the cause of Roe v Wade’s demise. If they don’t do anything, then they can be accused of being pro-life, even if they aren’t.
Without one more appointment by Trump, I fear a decision by the SCOTUS as things sit right now.
This court is nowhere near a lock for us right now. And further, any ruling right now may be the last one for years to come.
A new ruling may be seen as the standard for decades.
Personally, I wish the SCOTUS would decide this for us today.
After 60 to 70,000,000 innocent souls have been extinguished it is long time to review the false evil and incorrect decision made in 1973 which legalizes murder
This law is much more likely to withstand review than AL law.
If marijuana laws won’t be enforced, why should abortion? The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law.
Sure about that? I'm not.
Aren’t parents with children and no court ordered custodial order considered to be jointly custodial?
Why isn’t there a museum in DC dedicated to abortion.Americans need to be educated about how awful this is and how it got to the current state of infanticide.
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