Bill prefiling for the Missouri General Assembly session started on December 1st.
Yet another bill, addressing a matter of great urgency for right wingnuts:
HB 1572
Designates January 22 as the “Day of Tears” in Missouri
Sponsor: Kelley, Ann (127)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2022
LR Number: 3597H.01I
Last Action: 12/01/2021 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HB 1572
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KELLEY (127).
3597H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the day of tears.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 9.342, to read as follows:
9.342. January twenty-second each year is hereby designated and shall be known as the “Day of Tears” in Missouri. The day shall commemorate all those lost to abortion. The United States flag and Missouri state flag shall be flown at half-staff on all government buildings on the day of tears.
Lack of access to healthcare? No problem. Resistance to simple and effective public health measures? No problem. Death penalty? No problem. Mass shootings in schools (and elsewhere)? No problem.
Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman (r) [2019 file photo].
Today:
MaryElizabethColeman @meaccoleman
The architects of #hb126 are confident the 8th cir will uphold #MissouriStandsForTheUnborn. We commit that we will take advantage of every opportunity to ensure Missouri’s unborn receive the same protection as babies in Texas @NickBSchroer @adamSchnelting @Koenig4MO @elijahhaahr 6:55 AM · Sep 3, 2021
Some of the comments:
What is your plan for all of these unwanted babies? Does Betsy Devos need some new product to sell?
A modest proposal.
You have no concern for these “babies.” We are not fools.
What would stop you? Even when we vote on things in this state the extreme right blatantly disregards it. So what’s the point. Do whatever you want.
What are you doing for living children? I’ll wait.
Y’all are begging for backlash. Good
Aunt Lydia, will you make sure our kids are fed once they’re out of the womb? [….]
Why do you hate women and want to hurt born children?
You must take great pleasure putting your boot in the neck of young women. The Aunt Lydia of Missouri.
Don’t let anyone tell you this is about abortion! It is anti-intellectualism at its core. Terrorize and intimidate the doctors, scientists, teachers is the fascist playbook. If this were about stopping abortion, the conversation would be about birth control and sex education.
What about the born? History books won’t mention you by name because you aren’t significant, but your movement will be treated harshly. You represent everything that is wrong with our society, enjoy being lumped in with Prohibitionist and other quack groups, ya zealot.
You’re all horrible people and gigantic, embarrassing hypocrites. If you care so much about the unborn, you should try giving a shit about them after they’re born by working to prevent gun violence and poverty. How about not destroying public education?
They consider that a feature, not a bug.
You are an embarrassment and a shame to all women and all Missourians. You are one sad, sick individual if you put clumps of cells before living, breathing women and children. Reexamine your life and your choices, they are extremely bad ones.
We see what you did there.
Oh look, another white woman standing up for the patriarchy. They’ll turn on you in a heartbeat when they no longer have a use for you. Stand up for women and girls, you drunken clown. [….]
You’d think a right wingnut who promoted lies which encouraged an insurrection would want to keep a low profile for just a little while longer.
Nope.
Today:
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
One of America’s unalienable rights is LIFE.
Sickened that the @BidenInaugural associated our nation’s flag and patriotism with an organization who promotes ending the lives of the unborn.
[….] 2:02 PM · Jan 21, 2021
Vicky, you’d be surprised how many contributions have been made to Planned Parenthood in your name.
The Daily Caller? That sounds like the name of a Trotskyite rag.
The responses, as always, never fail to amuse:
I prefer you represent Missourians who have been BORN rather than the unborn.
What about the 400,000 people dead from COVID? What about the kids locked in cages? What about the kids struggling with home school and hunger? I guess you only care about them until they are born.
Under Trump, GOP showed what they really think about life. 400,000 dead Americans from a pandemic. 5 dead from an insurrection, organized and encouraged by GOP leaders.
Yeah um so 400000 dead americans on yours and Trumps watch is ok?
Whose life is important to you? Just unborn babies, right? Not the 400,000 covid deaths or the lives of your fellow legislators? I haven’t seen you denounce the lie leading to the attempted coup.
Are you concerned about all the kids that Trump locked in cages and separated from their parents?
You’re sickened? That’s how this whole country has felt for the last four years. Every. Single. Day.
Hello, someone dying to be outraged on Line 2. —-hold music—–
“The girl from Ipanema”?
Your hypocrisy is showing
Omg I am pro choice and live in your district, is this all you can tweet about when over 400000 have died of COVID
People elect you to be a representative of ALL the people in your district not just those you agree with. Try being more than a one-issue dog whistler.
Wow. 400,000 reasons why you are a complete and utter dip shit.
Just can’t help yourself can you. Maybe you could show you care about ALL LIFE and not support mobs who stormed the Capitol, resulting in loss of life. YOU desecrated our flag and patriotism with YOUR actions. You are a hypocrite and a traitor.
GOPs playbook on guns, life and debt is worn and tattered. You need a new playbook after 5 years of lies, caging kids, a failed coup, and blowing up deficits.
Or you can continue to look like clowns.
Capitol police were attacked with our nation’s flag.
Trump loving Vicky loves to yap about the lives of the unborn but doesn’t give a damn about the lives of those who are living breathing human beings in her district.
You’re gonna really crap your pants when you learn about terrorists taking our flag and beating a police officer with it because twice impeached-Trump told them to.
How about this association? You know the one you don’t want to mention as well as the act of treason. Spin bullshit is your only skill set.
Vicki, what any woman does with her own body is her own business. Btw, how do you feel about separating babies from their Mommas at the border? Or executing people in Federal custody?
Girl shut up.
Spare us your faux anger. Sickening is your support of those trying to overthrow an election. Where was your outrage over people being beaten with the flag?
NOPE. you don’t get to be the party of “life” my dear – more executions during Trump admin than any other, kids in cages, beaten dead police officers, OVER FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD FROM COVID.
Sorry, nope.
Where was your outrage when babies were being separated from their parents on the border under our American flag.
Save it, lady. You can’t start being outraged now.
You are a disgrace to Missouri, Vicki. Resign.
Hi whichever fearmongering Republican you are….
Here’s a thought… Separate church from state and stop bamboozling Americans into debating theocracy rather than government policy.
Ugh will you people shut up already about abortion. You don’t give a shit about the unborn or the born. You prove that time and again.
Wait until you hear about covid-19. Stfu with this pro-life BS
Trump and the GOP are forever associated with right wing terrorists killing a man with a flag
Cry me a fucking river. How many people did Trump kill this year? And I mean actual people, not blastulas
Or if you’ve overseen an incompetent [accessed 10/13/2020] state response to COVID-19.
Thank you for accessing the Show Me Strong COVID-19 dashboards. The public health dashboards are currently under maintenance and were last updated on Saturday, October 10. They will be back up and running soon once a database extract error is resolved. Read more here on the website of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
The indicated link at “here” in the announcement on the Missouri DHSS COVID-19 dashboard site is broken.
…As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 149,731 cases and 2,486 deaths in Missouri since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a New York Times database…
Or if you’ve cut off 100,000 Missouri Children from access to health care.
“…one of more than 100,000 Missouri children who have been dropped from the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program since 2018. In September 2019, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission reported that Missouri had the largest decline — 15.1 percent — in children covered by those two insurance programs between May 2017 and May 2019. Parson became governor on June 1, 2018, following the resignation of Governor Eric Greitens…”
Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].
We got mail today from the right wingnut PAC, Uniting Missouri, propping up Mike Parson’s (r) gubernatorial campaign:
Ooh. Scary.
State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D) [2019 file photo].
Today, from Josh Hawley (r), in yet anther attempt to set up his next rung on the ladder for 2024:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Before I vote for any future Supreme Court nominee I want to see record evidence that they acknowledge Roe v Wade was wrongly decided as a matter of law
[….] 3:49 PM · Jul 26, 2020
Some of the responses:
When you have a uterus, I will give your opinion careful consideration.
Stop trying to control women!! My body is none of your business!
That should not be how we pick judges. Any judge willing to so brazenly prejudice themself in front of the Senate doesnt deserve a seat on the bench even if I agree with their opinion.
so you want to make sure these hypothetical justices are committed to killing women
As if I needed another reason to actively work against you next election.
How about we move the country forward, not backward?
We will not “win” if we overturn Roe v Wade, and we won’t “lose” because we haven’t. Get over it, Senator, it’s time to stop treating us as a one-issue party. We don’t want litmus tests from the left, and we shouldn’t demand them on our side.
Someone is running for President.
Obvious by his disregard for his constituents and constant political stunts.
How much time and energy do you spend fighting for human life after they are born?
Not so much in Missouri.
God damn it, dude. We’re trying to run a nation here, not a bible school for backwards ass white men. Drop the misogyny.
First of all, NO. Secondly, how is this helpful right now. More authoritarianism from the patriarchy is not what we need to unite this country.
Politicians don’t belong in medicine. You take your religiosity and your judgment to church with you. Let us take care of medical decisions.
Whatever, Commander Waterford.
Can’t wait until Hawley is blocking all noms because the only people who fit his criteria are in jail for blowing up abortion clinics.
YASS! We need the Senate to just dictate to the SCOTUS how to rule on all controversial cases, because we all know how much more qualified politicians are to deliver fair justice.
And Republicans wonder why they’re losing suburban women in droves.
These culture wars are waged so elites like Hawley can pick our pockets for his big money donors. And yet people fall for this con again and again.
And as a supposed pro lifer, do you also want to see if they are cool with keeping brown kids in cages or allowing secret fed police to brutalize moms and vets, and if they hate health care?
Resign in shame, you terrible embarrassment to my state
You fill me with enthusiasm! For voting for your opponent! Can’t wait.
Please explain to us why you were afraid of witnesses during impeachment.
Too much truth about the president you worship?
This is just a tactic to get his base fired up. Distraction.
Fuck You, Josh Hawley.
What else do you do aside from being a shitbag of a human?
You will be replaced.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Whatever. You’ll be in the minority soon.
Spouting the same old tired shit
Fascist
In just a few months you will belong to the minority party, at which point you will cease to matter. In 2024 you will be voted out and we will never hear from you again. I look forward to all of this.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
To amend chapter 14, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to taxation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 14, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 14.080, to read as follows: 14.080. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the state of Missouri shall not remit any taxes including, but not limited to, federal withholding taxes, to the federal government of the United States unless the federal government prohibits the use of any federal funds for abortions. This prohibition shall include abortions resulting from rape or incest and abortions performed to save a person’s life.
It’s right wingnuts. It’s the Missouri General Assembly. What else did you expect?
We are surprised there isn’t boilerplate tenther drivel in the mix.
“…You think they’re doing this to delay the gathering of signatures? Of course they are…”
Today the Missouri Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals ruling that the Missouri ACLU’s initiative petition to reverse the anti-abortion HB 126 can move forward in the process.
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r) [2019 file photo].
Today, the Missouri Supreme Court let stand the Court of Appeals holding that Secretary of State Ashcroft acted outside his legal authority by rejecting the referendum petition on Missouri’s abortion ban. This recognition that Ashcroft acted illegally should prevent him from ever again abusing his office to derail the people’s right to challenge legislation by referendum.
Unfortunately, Ashcroft is continuing to obstruct the people’s vote by dragging his feet in his quest to deny the people a say on Missouri’s extreme 8-week abortion ban. If he acted promptly, supporters could begin to gather signatures by July 18 at the latest. But Ashcroft seems intent to slow the process so that supporters will not have enough time to collect enough signatures.
“It is no secret that Ashcroft’s agenda is banning abortion in Missouri,” says Anthony Rothert, interim Executive Director at the ACLU of Missouri. “While it is fantastic that the courts have made clear that he acted illegally, he may well succeed in preventing voters from getting their say on this important issue. Ashcroft’s tenure as Missouri’s chief election officer continues to be marked by efforts to prevent Missourians from voting.”
If Ashcroft had not illegally rejected the referendum petition, then he would have had to certify the petition for signature gathering by July 18. He will not meet that deadline, which in turn denies a meaningful opportunity to collect signatures, which must be submitted by August 28.
We reject the idea that Missourians can be denied the right to a referendum because of the unlawful action of an elected official determined to take away constitutional rights. The people kept for themselves the right of referendum to safeguard Missourians from an overzealous, out-of-touch government. No matter how they would vote on the referendum, every Missourian is harmed by Ashcroft’s abuse of this office to serve his radical anti-abortion agenda.
Our fight is not over. We continue to push Ashcroft to his job by certifying ballot language by July 18. Should he fail to do so, we will not let Missourians forget that he has taken the fate of the abortion ban away from the voters of Missouri.
Ironic isn’t it? Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r) gets away with doing his job poorly. In Missouri republican circles that’s considered a feature, not a bug.
“…You think they’re doing this to delay the gathering of signatures? Of course they are…”
Jay Ashcroft (r) [2017 file photo].
The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals ruled a few days ago that the Missouri ACLU’s initiative petition to reverse the anti-abortion HB 126 can move forward in the process. Except:
Let us be very clear. We are NOT cleared to gather signatures yet. Why? Secretary Ashcroft is obstructing the right to referendum.
The court ruled that Secretary Ashcroft acted illegally. He is now purposefully denying the right of the people to have a referendum.
The court is allowing Secretary Ashcroft to restart the clock and delay giving us ballot language until it could be too late to collect signatures.
That’s why we’ve appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court today.
[….]
Know this: If we are blocked from the ballot box because Secretary Ashcroft has run down the clock and given us, the people, no meaningful chance to gather 100,000 signatures by August 28th, we will continue to fight.
The ACLU will do whatever is necessary to make sure abortion remains legal in Missouri. The campaign will work to make sure reproductive rights are preserved across the state in any way it can.
[….]
The fight for reproductive rights does not rely on a single tool. We will see you in the streets, in the legislature, at the ballot box, and in the court room.
An entry today in the Missouri Court System Casenet after the Western District Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the Missouri ACLU’s initiative petition to reverse the anti-abortion HB 126 can move forward in the process.
WD82880 – AMERICAN CIVIL LIB, APEL V JOHN ASHCROFT, RES
07/09/2019
Mot for Rehearing/Tran to SC
motion and application; Electronic Filing Certificate of Service.
Filed By: ANTHONY EDWARD ROTHERT
On Behalf Of: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI, SARA E BAKER
Mot for Rehearing/Tran to SC
Respondents Ashcroft and Schmitts Motion for Rehearing, En Banc Review, or Transfer to the Missouri Supreme Court; Electronic Filing Certificate of Service.
Filed By: DEAN JOHN SAUER
On Behalf Of: JOHN ROBERT ASHCROFT, ERIC SCHMITT
You think they’re doing this to delay the gathering of signatures? Of course they are…
