Missouri’s abortion ban is being challenged by a group of religious leaders who support abortion rights. The group's lawsuit says state lawmakers invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and imposed those beliefs on others.
Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, a Republican, called the lawsuit “foolish.”
Within minutes of last year’s Supreme Court decision, then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Gov. Mike Parson, both Republicans, filed paperwork to immediatelyprohibiting abortions “except in cases of medical emergency.” That law contained a provision making it effective only if Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Missouri already had some of the nation’s more restrictive abortion laws and had seen a significant decline in the number of abortions performed, with residents instead traveling to clinics just across the state line in Illinois and Kansas.
Missouri Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, said in a statement that he will “defend the right to life with every tool at my disposal.”
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