Posted on 11/08/2024 12:43:57 PM PST by Morgana
On Tuesday, voters in Missouri narrowly passed an amendment writing abortion into the Missouri Constitution. On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood filed a sweeping lawsuit challenging virtually all of Missouri’s good, pro-life laws.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and the organization consistently opposes policies that protect women and unborn children from abortion.
Wednesday’s lawsuit challenges Missouri’s many pro-life measures, including the state’s good laws that:
Prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother
Require abortionists to give women information about abortion’s risks, consequences, and alternatives
Require abortionists to give women 72 hours to consider all options before an abortion
Protect unborn children from being aborted due to their race or sex or due to being at risk for Down Syndrome
Require abortion facilities to be licensed and inspected by the state
Require abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges in case the woman experiences complications from abortion
Outline how abortion data is recorded and reported to the state for statistical purposes
Prohibit telemed abortions in Missouri
Prevent healthcare professionals other than doctors from performing abortions
Require abortionists to maintain various plans and agreements for handling abortion complications
This is not the first time pro-abortion groups have challenged commonsense abortion regulations in court. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU challenged reasonable pro-life laws in Ohio after an abortion amendment passed in that state last year.
Informed-consent requirements and facility inspection standards protect women from dangerous abortion practices, but those are the kinds of laws pro-abortion groups are challenging in court.
It does not seem likely that Missouri voters want unreported abortions happening in unlicensed facilities, but the state is facing that possibility now that this abortion amendment has passed.
It’s worth pointing out that Arkansas’ pro-life laws are very similar to Missouri’s — meaning that an abortion amendment in Arkansas likely would jeopardize the very same good laws.
All of this serves as a warning about what can happen when states write sweeping, pro-abortion language into their state constitutions.
People on the side of murdering the innocent unborn will have an eternity to consider how stupid they were...
The new Congress should move to defund planned Murderhood.
They should require the mom to see an ultrasound of her baby.
Each of those “good laws” will have to be asserted and then defended in the courts, all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court. Amendment 3 also provided little in the way of wiggle room for Pro-life activists to use. The Thomas More Society did an excellent analysis, and the legal impact of the amendment is noted for each section.
The prohibition on “interfering, in any way....” with a person seeking an abortion, or an abortion provider, is specifically written into the amendment to prevent pregnancy centers, etc., from making any intervention without exposing themselves to both criminal and civil sanctions.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/decoding-missouri-amendment-3
From your fingertips to God's ears!
I found out recently an acquaintance’ 25 year old son is getting his tranny transition meds from Planned Parenthood.
They will win. If the amendment was worded as other such amendments have been any and all regulations of abortion including licensing standards for abortion abattoirs is a violation of Missouri’s constitution.
That has been a huge money maker for P.P.
They should be forced to change the name “Planned Parenthood”...
They plan to PREVENT parenthood....
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