Missouri House slated to pass sweeping abortion bill
A vote to send the sweeping bill to the GOP-led Senate could come as early as next week.
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A vote to send the sweeping bill to the GOP-led Senate could come as early as next week.
The Republican-led Missouri House is set to pass legislation to defund Planned...
A bill that would make it a felony to donate fetal tissue from abortions for research or therapies won first-round approval Tuesday in the Missouri House, but lawmakers blocked an effort to make it illegal to help a women obtain an abortion outside the state.
The bill still bans taxpayer funds from going to abortion providers or their affiliates, creates an offense for trafficking abortion-inducing drugs, and allows family members to bring wrongful death lawsuits in the instance that a baby “born alive” after an attempted abortion dies.