When the court issued its decision this morning, he let out a sigh of relief. Lee this week has the Supreme Court and SCOTUS Blog’s websites open on his computer and each morning compulsively has hit “refresh” to see if the opinion has come down. “I’m really grateful for all those lawyers and judges and pro-life advocates who over the decades have worked hard to bring us to this point.” “Unborn children can once again be fully protected in the law,” said Samuel Lee, the director of Campaign Life Missouri, an anti-abortion rights group. However, they say their work is not over. That’s not the future I want for my son."Īnti-abortion activists said the Supreme Court’s decision is an enormous victory in their fight to end abortion. From limiting access to the ballot box to overturning marriage equality to prohibiting teachers from teaching accurate history, our children could grow up with fewer rights than we ourselves did. Wade was just the first step in a rightwing plot to take away our freedoms, and more attacks are coming. "If you’re a Democratic leader who has somehow managed to stay silent on abortion rights, it’s far past time for you to speak out and join together with us in this fight," Jones said in a statement.
Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones upbraided the decision, noting that seven in 10 Missourians support the right to abortion. But in the immediate aftermath, this decision helps no one, it will not decrease abortion, it simply will criminalize abortion.” "I think the decision to overturn Roe.is an extreme overreach of judicial power, and ultimately, this overreach will backfire. "The decision is a discredit to the Supreme Court and to the history of law and order and precedent in the United States," said Pamela Merritt, executive director of Medical Students for Choice. At the same time, abortion rights groups stress that the end Roe v. The decision follows a decades-long fights from anti-abortion advocate groups that have long sought to restrict abortion access across the state. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri in the Central West End. Cori Bush (MO-01) speaks on Friday, June 24, 2022, during a roundtable regarding life after Roe v Wade at the Planned Parenthood of the St. "And this is a far right extremist Supreme Court is making this decision that affects other people," said U.S. "With this attorney general opinion, my Office has effectively ended abortion in Missouri, becoming the first state in the country to do so following the Court's ruling," Schmitt said in a statement.īut abortion rights supporters expressed outrage at the decision, which they said would put women at risk. The law allows abortion if the mother’s life is in danger but does not contain exceptions for rape or incest, and makes assisting in an abortion a felony. Immediately after the Roe decision, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued an opinion that effectively enacted a law originally passed in 2019 that would make most abortions in the state unlawful the moment Roe was overturned. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortions across the country.
Missouri anti-abortion advocates are praising a decision Friday by the U.S.
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