Pathway Calls for Special Session

Editor of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Pathway publication calls on Gov. Blunt to hold a special session in order to pass pro-life legislation:

Now history could – and should – repeat itself. Like in 2005, the General Assembly failed to act on important pro-life legislation that would have further curtailed Missouri abortions. The House passed a bill that would make it illegal to try to coerce a woman into having an abortion by abusing, stalking or threatening to fire her, reducing her wages, changing her working environment or taking away her college scholarship. It also would require a woman seeking an abortion to be given the option of seeing an ultrasound of the fetus and would have expanded the information required to be given to the woman by the physician performing the abortion. Sadly, the Senate failed to act. As a result, pro-life supporters are calling on Blunt to again create “the perfect storm” and call a special session of the General Assembly to address the issue. The timing of such action could produce, for abortionists, another “perfect storm.”

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