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Legislative Update

Hearings this week:

Heard in the Senate Families, Seniors and Health Committee:

SJR 33 – Legislation/Joint Resolution to Place language on the Ballot for Missouri Voters to Repeal and Replace Amendment 3.

Here is a link to SJR 33 in its current form: https://www.senate.mo.gov/25info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=186

SJR 8 – Legislation to clarify that every person has a unique set of DNA and deserve equal protection under the law.

Here is a link to SJR 8 in its current form: https://www.senate.mo.gov/25info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=512

Missouri Right to Life supported both Resolutions.

Pray for your legislators in the work ahead of them to “Repeal and Replace” Amendment 3 and save as many lives as we can!

Come to the Statewide Pro-Life Action Day to Learn More.

Pro-Life Action Day 2025

Please make plans to come to the Missouri State Capitol on Wednesday, March 26, for the Missouri Statewide Pro-Life Action Day and help us support our legislators in putting “Protection for Pre-Born Babies and Their Moms” in our Missouri State Constitution!

For bus information for travel to Legislative Action Day, contact the state office at 573-635-5110 or email righttolife@missourilife.org. For bus information from the St. Louis and surrounding area go to: https://www.easternregionmrl.org/actionday.

Life Links

Archbishop Condemns Abortion: Protecting Babies From Abortion is the “Human Rights Issue of Our Time”

Link - Abortion is the ultimate example of what Pope Francis describes as a throwaway society. God cannot bless such a culture of death.

Bills Keeping Foreign Money Out Of Ballot Measure Campaigns Pick Up Steam In Republican States

Link - Riding high on their party’s 2024 election wins, Republican lawmakers in several states are making a concerted effort to keep foreign money out of ballot initiative campaigns.

Vance: President Trump is Reversing Biden’s Abortion Agenda

Link - During a speech to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vice President JD Vance says President Donald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s pro-abortion agenda.

Click for full transcript.

Leftover Biden abortion scheme takes hit in appeals court

Link - Appeals court stops Biden’s plan to force employers to fund abortions.

How in-Utero Diagnosis Is Being Used to Push Abortion

Link - Take heart parents. You have the right to give your baby a full life in all circumstances.

Women Who Have Abortions More Likely To Attempt Suicide, Study Finds

Link - About 35% of the women who have had abortions attempted suicide.

Searches for ‘abortion’ on CDC website now direct users to look up ‘adoption’

Link - In a move that some workers in the so-called “reproductive health” industry say is a “clear attempt” to change how conversations around pregnancy are approached, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website no longer returns search results for the word “abortion” and instead suggests that users try searching the word “adoption.”

University is Killing Viable Babies in Abortions and Using Their Body Parts for Research

Link - A publicly funded university in California is killing babies in abortions and turning around and using their body parts for grisly research.

Pro-Life Around the State

March 1 - St. Louis - First Saturday Rosary for Life, 9:30 a.m. on the sidewalk outside the abortion facility at 4251 Forest Park Ave. until approximately 10:15 a.m.

March 7 - St. Louis/Illinois - The Coalition Life Circle Prayer Rally from 11AM - 2PM will be held at three different locations in Illinois: Fairview Heights, Carbondale and Flossmoor. Click here to register.

March 12 - St. Louis - Pro-life apologetics workshop for young adults. 6:00-8:30 pm in the Fleur de Lis Room at the Cardinal Rigali Center.

March 26, 2025 - Statewide - Pro-Life Lobby Day at the State Capitol from 10 am - 2 pm. Mark your calendars.

April 24 - Moberly - MRL Celebration of Life Banquet, 6:00 pm at the Moberly Municipal Auditorium, 201 West Rollins. Featured Speaker: Kathy Sparks Lesnoff. Click here to download the registration form.

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