Missouri Lifeline 2/12/16
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"Show Me Life" Pro-Life Action Day
Thanks to the hundreds of Missouri Right to Life supporters who attended Tuesday's "Show Me Life" Pro-Life Action Day. It was a beautiful day in every way!
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| Lt. Governor Peter Kinder speaks to pro-lifers at the noon rally. |
Click here for more pictures of our wonderful speakers on our Facebook page. And, mark your calendars: there will be another pro-life action day this coming
April 5!
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Campaign to raise tobacco tax in Missouri caught in pro-life snag
"We've had a team of lawyers looking at every detail of the language," said Susan Klein, legislative liaison for Missouri Right to Life. "Our lawyers have come to the conclusion that we have pro-life protections that we need in this initiative, and the funds collected through this tax will not go to abortions, human cloning or embryonic stem cell research."...
read more.
Click here for MRL's official statement on the proposed "Raise Your Hands for Kids" tobacco tax initiative.
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Legislative Update
February 12, 2016:
Click here for the full legislative update and information on all the bills we are keeping an eye on.
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Baby born weighing 10 ounces who defied odds heads home
The smallest surviving baby born at Carolinas HealthCare System is finally headed home more than four months after she was born...read more .
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NRLC Urges Co-Sponsorship of Dismemberment Abortion Ban
H.R. 3515, introduced by Reps. Chris Smith, Vicki Hartzler, Virginia Foxx, and Trent Franks, would prohibit the performance of dismemberment abortion...read more.
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Judge dismissed Satanic Temple lawsuit against Missouri's 72-hour informed consent law
A Cole County Circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New York-based group called the Satanic Temple that challenged Missouri's 72-hour waiting period/informed consent laws on abortion...read more.
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Baby Adam, whom others called a curse, shares why every child is precious
When Adam was born just over four years ago in India, he was immediately abandoned by his birth parents. Born with severe physical deformities, including a cleft lip and palate, no eyelids, no nose, fused legs, and hand abnormalities, he was considered a curse, and his parents threatened to kill him if they were forced to bring him back to their village...
read more.
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Physician Assisted Suicide's Slippery Slope
Advocates of physician assisted suicide will tell you that their motivation is simply to help end pain. But as this woman's case evidences, "pain" takes on varied forms for different people...read more.
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The Skinny on Genes
What could a petri dish have to do with national security? A whole lot, according to U.S. intelligence officials. As far as our top spy, James Clapper, is concerned, that's where the world may be building the latest weapon of mass destruction...
read more.
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Did You Know?
Hippocrates (460-382 BC) prohibited abortion in his Oath, which was taken verbatim by physicians until very recently, when the American Medical Association and others quietly and conveniently dropped his prohibition against the murder of the unborn child. (
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Pro-Life Around the State
February 10-March 20 - Statewide - 40 Days for Life spring campaign. Click for details on the following MO locations: Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City.
February 13 - Ballwin - Birthright Trivia Night and Silent Auction at Holy Infant Catholic Church. Doors open at 6:30; Trivia starts at 7:00. Call Peggy Lewis for more information - 636-256-2406
February 20 - Springfield - MRL C
hapter meeting, 10 am at the Springfield Library Center on S. Campbell St.
February 20 - St. Louis - prayer procession from the Cathedral Basilica to abortion facility after 8:00 Mass.
March 25-26 - St. Louis - 24 hr. Good Friday/Holy Saturday Vigil. For more information contact Mary at 314-346-9052 or email
[email protected]
March 30 - Jefferson City - Bott Radio National Day of Prayer: Show Me Your Glory Lord Event at the Missouri State Capitol, First Floor Rotunda.
April 5 - Statewide - Pro-Life Action Day at Missouri State Capitol. We Need You in Jefferson City Again! This will be the day to emphasize "Defunding of Planned Parenthood"
May 5 - Jefferson City - National Day of Prayer at the Missouri State Capitol, South Lawn. The theme for National Day of Prayer this year is Wake Up America!
May 17 - Jefferson City - Franklin Graham will be coming to Missouri for the America Decision Tour to lead prayer at the Capitol Steps for our state and nation.
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