Missouri Senate Hearing for SB356 Recap
On Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023, SB356, the Abolition of Abortion in Missouri Act, was granted a committee hearing. Although multiple witnesses were there to speak for and against SB356, the committee only allowed two organizations to speak for and two to speak against. Bradley Pierce of the Foundation to Abolish Abortion spoke in favor stating the abolitionist belief “that murdering anyone should be illegal for everyone”. Jeff Durbin of End Abortion Now also spoke in favor of the bill.
Two pro-life organization spoke against the bill. Samuel Lee of Campaign Life Missouri and Susan Klein of Missouri Right to Life both opposed the bill citing the NRCL letter published on May 12, 2022. According to the committee minutes, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region & SW MO and Pro Choice Missouri were also present to speak against the bill. A video of the hearing can be watched here.
By their actions both pro-life organizations showed they share the same belief that Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice Missouri hold-–that life in the womb is less valuable and therefore should be less protected than life outside of the womb.
G3 Ministries and Yahoo News also covered this story.
Abolition Headlines
Abolitionists Rising released multiple videos on YouTube:
- The Four Walls of Evangelism | T. Russell Hunter
- Abolishing Abortion – King Russell Responds to a LITTANY of Random Excuses
- CLOWN WORLD | Brett Baggett at the 2023 Abolition Now Conference
- Why We Do What We Do and How to Do It
Abolish Abortion TX has also released multiple videos on their YouTube channel recently:
- Most Politicians are Not Leaders. YOU are.
- “Why aren’t we protecting ALL children?!” — Voices for Equal Protection
- “Every single preborn child in Texas can still be legally murdered.” — Voices for Equal Protection
- “We need a law to protect women and their children!” — Voices for Equal Protection
- Post-Abortive Rape Survivor Wants Equal Protection for Preborn Babies
- “The ironic part is they’re telling us it’s been abolished…” — Voices for Equal Protection
- “We’ve only abolished abortion in WORD but not in DEED.” — Voices for Equal Protection
- Pro-Life Leaders OPPOSE Equal Protection in Missouri!
- RAW VIDEO—Pro-Life Orgs Testify AGAINST Bill to Abolish Abortion
Matthew Wiersema, who is producing the film “Abolitionists”, has put out a fund raising call to help finish the film. To donate, please click here.
Pro-Life Headlines
On April 27th, The Nebraska legislature voted down a pro-life bill to regulate abortion as healthcare. LB626 would have lowered the gestational age at which a pregnant mother could hire a hitman (abortionist) to murder her child from twenty weeks to six weeks and included exemptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother as well as IVF. The bill also kept abortion legal for the pregnant woman and gave no legal penalties to abortionists other than potential “professional discipline”.
In South Carolina, another pro-life bill to regulate abortion as healthcare, H3774 (which Students for Life gave huge support to), was defeated in the Senate. According to Equal Protection South Carolina, if H3774 would have passed, it would have made it nearly impossible to ever abolish abortion in South Carolina. As a reminder, South Carolina had a bill of equal protection filed (HB3549), and pro-life backed politicians refused to give it a hearing.
Upcoming Events
June 11-12th – Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans. Although this is not an abolition conference or event, numerous abolitionists will be attending and engaging those at the convention and around New Orleans.
