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Pre-filing of Legislation Begins Today
Jefferson City is busy once again as today marks the official first day to pre-file legislation for the upcoming legislative session. Whether new bills to tackle the issues of the day, or old bills that never made it across the finish line, many lawmakers are in the capitol hoping early filing will give their bill a chance to make it through the process. We will be sure to provide an update of the Good, Bad, and Ugly of pre-filed bills as they become public this week.
Senator Mike Moon Asks Parson to Intervene in Vaccine Mandate for Missouri National Guard
In a letter sent to Governor Parson this week, Senator Mike Moon said that state statute puts the Missouri National Guard directly under the governor’s control and called for Parson to “direct the adjutant general to disregard any and all unlawful directives from the current, and future, federal administrations”.
“Many Missourians have dedicated themselves to serve our state in the Missouri Guard. To threaten these men and women with a dishonorable discharge simply because they choose to exercise their religious or medical right is an inappropriate response,” –Senator Mike Moon
Moon has stated he will file legislation that would allow any Missourian to oppose the vaccine for any reason without any repercussion.
Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers Halted in Missouri -- For Now
Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern District of Missouri issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Biden administration from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) umbrella.
Schelp, who was appointed to his position by former President Donald Trump in 2019, said the CMS mandate needs congressional approval and would be “overwhelming” in terms of cost.
“[T]he political significance of a mandatory coronavirus vaccine is hard to understate, especially when forced by the heavy hand of the federal government,” Schelp said in the order. “Indeed, it would be difficult to identify many other issues that currently have more political significance at this time.”
“Truly, the impact of this mandate reaches far beyond COVID. CMS seeks to overtake an area of traditional state authority by imposing an unprecedented demand to federally dictate the private medical decisions of millions of Americans,” he continued in the order. “Such action challenges traditional notions of federalism.”
Greitens Campaign Hit with MEC Complaint in Campaign for US Senate
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization filed a new complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission (MEC) alleging former Gov. Eric Greitens illegally used more than $100,000 from his gubernatorial campaign for his U.S. Senate bid.
The Campaign Legal Center previously filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) but flagged the alleged violations to the MEC Wednesday, arguing the improper spending and reporting violated both federal and state campaign finance laws.
The group accused Greitens of spending more than $100,000 from his gubernatorial campaign fund in expenses for media, to his future campaign manager, and on a public relations firm that boasts its connections to Fox News. (Greitens announced his candidacy in March 2021 during an appearance on Bret Baier’s Fox News show.)
Representative Becky Ruth Named New Director of Office of Child Advocate
After seven years in the Missouri Legislature, Rep. Becky Ruth was sworn in as the new director of the Office of Child Advocate Wednesday morning. She is replacing Kelly Schultz, who was asked to step down from her role as the OCA director at the end of November to make way for the appointment. She was named the new director of policy and partnerships for the Missouri State Alliance of YMCAs.
Ruth was expected to run in the primary for the Jefferson County senate seat against Representatives Mary Elizabeth Coleman and Dan Shaul. Ruth represented the moderate lane as a pro-union, pro-education establishment candidate.
Women Deserve Better Than Abortion
By Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman
Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is about a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks. This pivotal case directly targets Roe v. Wade.
Roe v. Wade in 1973 forced every state to legalize abortion before a baby was considered "viable," which was then assumed to be around 28 weeks but is now around 21 weeks. The Dobbs case will determine if states can protect the lives of children before "viability," which would strike at the heart of the Roe decision. Just for context, since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, more than 50 million babies have been aborted in the U.S.
In the 1970s, the women’s movement electrified the nation – proclaiming women’s equality with men – an announcement that was bold for the time. These women rightly lamented that in 1972 only…
1 in 27 girls played sports
4 in 10 college graduates were women.
1 in 4 mothers worked outside the home,
Women remained less than 5 percent of the enrollment at ABA-approved law schools
Only 6% of state legislators were women.
But the cries for equality in the workplace were soon drowned out by even louder calls for “abortion rights” and “pro-choice.” Progress for women professionally was hijacked by those advancing a lie that women must choose between being pro-woman or pro-baby. The lie that you cannot continue your education if you are a mother. The lie that motherhood is the end of your dreams. The lie that to succeed in life you must trade your seat at the table with the life of your child.
When women are forced to conform to the false view that they must lay their bodies down or swallow a bitter pill for an abortion in order to compete in the workplace or make their way in the world—that is not equality. Some of my heroes have joined today in the fight for women’s rights. Women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul.
As women we know that once a woman is expecting a child, she is forever changed, no matter what the outcome – the decision to raise the child; to choose adoption; the terrible outcome of a miscarriage or stillbirth; or terminating the child’s life with the brutal procedure of an abortion. Women have a right to be professionals, and moms, in the workplace and in school. Women shouldn’t have to pose as men.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first champion of women’s suffrage, and a mother of seven, said, “When you consider that women have been treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” I am a mother of six. My first son was born between my first and second year of law school. I nursed my second son as I was handed my law degree. Our third and fourth sons were born in my first years of practicing law. I knocked doors campaigning wearing my fifth son in a carrier on my back and three years ago I held my daughter’s hand as I filed my first bill in the Missouri House of Representatives. My children have blessed my life, pushing me to work not just for myself but for their future. As an architect of Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act, and lifelong prolife advocate I am proud to have been invited to speak from the steps of the Supreme Court today with Mississippi Attorney General, Lynn Fitch.
Susan B Anthony once remarked: “Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.” We reject the lie that children are the end of our dreams. We refuse to make women choose between their education, career plans and families. We refuse to say that other women are less deserving of the support I and others received as both professionals and moms.
Women deserve better. We deserve better. And women deserve to have their voices heard.
Since 1972, thanks to increased funding and institutional opportunities, there has been a 545% increase in the percentage of women playing college sports and a 990% increase in the percentage of women playing high school sport.” At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high. More women than men attend both our top law and medical schools. And the number of women serving in the state houses across the county has quadrupled.
Any false assertion that these achievements are the result of abortion rights is an insult to women and wrongly diminishes their achievements in these and so many other areas where women are succeeding and thriving.
Today, the Supreme Court has a chance to reject these lies. To proclaim loudly. Women Deserve Better Than Abortion. Roe v. Wade was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—"has no place in law under the Constitution”.
After Roe: What Comes Next for Pro-Lifers Will be Harder
As the arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization begin today at the Supreme Court, it’s worth remembering that this long, generational march of the pro-life movement is only a march to the starting line for the real race. The issue before the Court is not the morality of abortion. All that is at issue is whether the people, through their state legislatures, are able to limit and regulate the practice of abortion — whether abortion is a fundamental constitutional right or a matter for self-governing people to determine democratically. A huge, against-all-odds victory that vitiates the holding of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey would only mean the restoration of American self-governance on the issue of abortion. The legal movement to restore constitutional rule on the issue is only the prelude to a true democratic pro-life movement. If Roe is overturned or weakened to the point where state legislatures get active, you will see blue states try to re-create in their own territories the legal free-for-all that existed these last five decades. Some red states will restrict abortion to the point where very few abortion providers remain in their states. And each of these restrictions will be probed for moral coherence. Overall, American abortion law will — in aggregate — become more like European abortion law, with a variety of restrictions kicking in after the first trimester. And like European abortion law, American abortion law will likely develop in a way that seeks to satisfy the contrary and contradictory impulses of the American people; the laws will often lack moral coherence.
Supreme Court Considers Whether to Reverse Roe v. Wade Arguments
An epic argument at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday: At issue is whether to reverse the court's nearly half-century-old Roe v. Wade decision and subsequent decisions declaring that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
Until now, all the court's abortion decisions have upheld Roe's central framework — that women have a constitutional right to an abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy when a fetus is unable to survive outside the womb, until roughly between 22 and 24 weeks.
But Mississippi's law bans abortion after 15 weeks. A separate law enacted a year later would ban abortions after six weeks, and while the six-week ban is not at stake in this case, the state is now asking the Supreme Court to reverse all of its prior abortion decisions and to return the abortion question to the states.
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