The Missouri Senate approved a bill Thursday that would ban abortions after 8 weeks. The measure passed the Republican-led Senate by a vote of 24-10 after a debate that continued late into the night.
Senate Democrats filibustered the bill for several hours in an attempt to derail it, but then Senators took a recess which ended at 3 a.m. The measure passed with little debate after Senators returned. The Missouri Senate GOP’s Twitter account posted “History made!” at 3:59 a.m. after the bill’s passage.
The bill contains no exceptions for incest or rape, but it does contain provisions for “medical emergencies.” It also prohibits abortions based only on sex, race, or a “prenatal diagnosis, test, or screening indicating Down Syndrome or the potential of Down Syndrome.”
Missouri joined other conservative states who have approved abortion bans in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent appointments to the Supreme Court. Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio have all recently passed bills banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Bans in Iowa and North Dakota have already been defeated in court.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban into law on Wednesday. It made providing abortion a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison. Many believe the Alabama bill intentionally went as far as it did to…
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