{"id":248653,"date":"2021-07-06T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248653"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T20:24:11","slug":"missouri-supreme-court-8-week-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/missouri-supreme-court-8-week-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri asks US Supreme Court to review state’s pro-life law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The state of Missouri is following through on its promise to work to defend its abortion laws to the Supreme Court. Last month, a federal appeals court blocked the state’s law<\/a> restricting discriminatory abortions as well as abortions at and after two months \u2014\u00a0the latest in a years-long battle with the courts. Now, state Attorney General Eric Schmitt is asking the Supreme Court to step in.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Missouri passed<\/a> House Bill 126 restricting abortion based on the child’s sex, race, or prenatal diagnosis as well as abortions beginning at two months, which included an exception if the mother’s life was at risk. (Abortion is never medically necessary<\/a>.) Mothers also would have been exempt from any punishment for procuring an abortion, though abortionists committing the procedures would have faced up to 15 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs blocked the law just days before it would have taken effect, citing viability.<\/p>\n