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6/7/2010
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6/3/2010
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6/3/2010
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5/19/2010
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Current Legislation

Pro-Choice Legislation

Anti-Choice Legislation

Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies (2010)

Duty of Pharmacists to Fill Prescriptions (2010)

Prevention First Act (2010)

Abortion Insurance Coverage Ban (2010)

Abortion Restrictions and

Abortion Screening Requirements (2010)

Ban on All Public Funds for Abortion (2010)

Criminal Prosecution of Pregnant Drug Addicts (2010)

Declaration of Secession (2010)

Pharmacy Refusal (2010)

Self Incrimination for Abortion Providers (2010)

Pro-Choice Legislation:

Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1914 [ view bill ]

Status: Second Read

Sponsor(s): Oxford (D-59)

This act provides that hospitals and health care facilities are required to do the following:

1) Provide every sexual assault victim with medically accurate information about emergency contraception;

2) Orally inform each victim of her right to be provided emergency contraception at the hospital;

3) Provide the complete regimen of emergency contraception immediately if the victim requests it; and

4) Follow the Department of Justice protocol on HIV/STI screening and prophylactic treatment.

Read our Policy Analysis of H.B. 1914.

Same as S.B. 1010 (Sponsor: Bray).

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Duty of Pharmacists to Fill Prescriptions (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1961 [ view bill ]

Status: Second Read

Sponsor(s): Newman (D-73)

This bill would require pharmacists and pharmacy employees to fill all valid contraceptive prescriptions without delay or judgment. Additionally, this act specifies that emergency contraception must be provided to all requesting customers of legal age in a timely manner.

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Prevention First Act (2010)

Bill Number: S.B. 696 [ view bill ]

Status: Referred to Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

Sponsor(s): Wright-Jones (D-5)

This act would change laws regarding sex education, emergency contraception access for rape victims, access to birth control, funding for women's health programs, and duty of pharmacists to fill valid prescriptions.

Find details here.

Similar to S.B. 982.

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Anti-Choice Legislation:

Abortion Insurance Coverage Ban (2010)

Bill Number: S.B. 747 [ view bill ]

Status: Senate Informal Calendar

Sponsor(s): Rupp (R-2)

This bill would ban an insurance exchange established in Missouri from providing any coverage for abortion care, even in the private market, and even when purchased separately with optional riders.

Same as H.B. 1725 and H.B. 2145.

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Abortion Restrictions and

Bill Number: H.B. 1211 [ view bill ]

Status: H.B. 1327/2000 passed out of the House, S.B. 793 passed out of the Senate

Sponsor(s): Dusenberg (R-54)

This set of bills is full of burdensome restrictions for women seeking abortions and the doctors who perform them. Several of these bills also create the crime of "coercing" an abortion.

Read Legislative Analyses for S.B. 793 and H.B. 1327/2000.

Same as H.B. 1238, S.B. 793 and similar to H.B. 2000 and H.B. 1327.

Find out how your legislator voted on H.B. 1327/2000 here.

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Abortion Screening Requirements (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1236 [ view bill ]

Status: Second Read

Sponsor(s): Davis (R-19)

This bill uses medically inaccurate information to identify "risk factors" for abortion, such as the false link between abortion and breast cancer. The act establishes various intrusions into the doctor-patient relationship.

Read Legislative Analysis of H.B. 1236.

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Ban on All Public Funds for Abortion (2010)

Bill Number: HJR 49 [ view bill ]

Status: Second Read

Sponsor(s): Davis (R-19)

This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would ban all public funds from being used for abortion care, even in cases of rape and incest or when a woman's life is at risk. It would also ban funds from being used for stem cell research and would define "child" as the "unborn" at the earliest stages of conception.

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Criminal Prosecution of Pregnant Drug Addicts (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1257 [ view bill ]

Status: Second Read

Sponsor(s): Smith (R-14)

This act allows for the criminal prosecution of a pregnant woman who ingests a controlled substance, whether or not she has knowledge of the pregnancy.

Read Legislative Analysis of H.B. 1257.

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Declaration of Secession (2010)

Bill Number: HJR 88 [ view bill ]

Status: Passed out of the House, First Read in the Senate

Sponsor(s): Nieves (R-98)

This resolution declares Missouri's "sovereignty" under the Tenth Amendment, refusing to "recognize" any federal laws, executive orders, or judicial rulings with which the sponsors disagree. Among the federal laws/rulings that Missouri would refuse to recognize are: a woman's right to choose legal abortion, stem cell research, "hate crimes" as separate from other crimes, gay marriage or civil unions, and the separation of church of state.

Read Legislative Analysis of HJR 88.

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Pharmacy Refusal (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1365 [ view bill ]

Status: Special Standing Committee on Children and Families: Hearing Completed

Sponsor(s): Emery (R-126)

Allows pharmacies to be immune from liability for refusing to dispense birth control. Also falsely classifies emergency contraception as an abortifacient.

Read Legislative Analysis of H.B. 1365.

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Self Incrimination for Abortion Providers (2010)

Bill Number: H.B. 1546 [ view bill ]

Status: Senate Bill (792) voted DO PASS; Senate Formal Calendar

Sponsor(s): Harris (D-110)

Expands the reporting requirements made to the state by abortion care providers regarding personal information of patients.

Read Legal Analysis of H.B. 1546.

Same as S.B. 792.

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