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Lack of exceptions for rape or incest under Missouri abortion ban fuels anger from advocates

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the Missouri House in 2019 debated the bill that became the state’s abortion ban, then-state Rep. Bryan Spencer quickly raised — and praised — the proposal’s lack of exceptions for victims of rape and incest.

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Missouri AG calls abortion legislation from Kansas City, St. Louis ‘plainly illegal’

The day after the Kansas City Council approved legislation that could reimburse city employees who need to travel to have an abortion — and after St. Louis began pursuing similar legislation — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt called the efforts “plainly illegal.”

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Missouri health system reverses course, resumes offering emergency contraception after assurances

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saint Luke’s Health System said Wednesday it would resume providing emergency contraceptives, reversing course less than 24 hours after The Kansas City Star first reported it was no longer providing Plan B.

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Kansas City area health system stops providing Plan B in Missouri because of abortion ban

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A leading health system in Kansas City is no longer providing emergency contraception in Missouri after the state banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest.

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St. Louis County's Bell among US elected prosecutors vowing not to enforce abortion bans

CLAYTON, Mo. — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is among more than 80 elected prosecutors in Democratic-majority jurisdictions across the country who have pledged not to enforce abortion bans.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri AG can prosecute abortion ban violations. Could patient data aid enforcement?

Six minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision striking down Roe v. Wade, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt posted a photo of himself signing a legal opinion to trigger the state’s abortion ban.

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Abortion banned in Missouri as trigger law takes effect, following Supreme Court ruling

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nearly all abortion is now banned in Missouri following the U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday ending the federal right to the procedure that marks the culmination of a decades-long campaign by Missouri abortion opponents to restrict – and one day eliminate – the lawful ability to…

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‘One of our darkest days’: outrage after supreme court overturns Roe v Wade

Chuck Schumer condemns justices on ‘the extremist Maga court’ but conservative lawmakers move swiftly to trigger abortion bans

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Greitens RINO video spurred threats to family, lawyer says

The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens says the family has been subjected to “serious threats” in the days since Greitens released a violent campaign video in which he declares he’s hunting RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only

The Independent UK

Greitens says violent video about hunting people was meant to be humorous

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens hit the conservative talk radio circuit Tuesday, arguing that a campaign video showing him storming a house with soldiers in search of “Republicans in name only” was intended to be a humorous metaphor.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As police condemn ad, Greitens says ‘normal’ people know RINO-hunting ad is metaphor

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said Tuesday an ad released by his U.S. Senate campaign depicting him, shotgun in hand, hunting “RINOS” (Republicans in name only) was a metaphor that every “normal person” understood.

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Missouri Senate candidate Greitens puts out gun-toting video that depicts him hunting members of his own party

WASHINGTON — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens put out a video Monday that showed him and a group of men in tactical gear with guns hunting Republicans who they do not deem adequately conservative, ramping up the war-like messaging of his campaign for U.S. Senate.

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Missouri Senate candidate Greitens puts out gun-toting video

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Missouri law undercuts domestic violence ‘boyfriend’ fix in US Senate deal on guns

The bipartisan gun deal in the U.S. Senate announced on Sunday — and supported by Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt — would close the “boyfriend loophole” in federal law that allows some individuals convicted of domestic violence to have guns if their victim is a dating partner instead of a…

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Democrats think they can win the Missouri Senate seat. It just depends on who can beat Greitens

WASHINGTON — There is a shadow looming over the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

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Missouri’s GOP Senate candidates want Trump’s endorsement. Its power is being tested

WASHINGTON — Rep. Billy Long thinks he has two paths to winning the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

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On immigration, advocates say a 'shadow Trump administration' is tying Biden's hands

A federal judge in Louisiana holds a hearing today about the future of Title 42. Immigrant advocates say it's the latest attempt by Republican-led states to block Biden's immigration agenda in court.

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Missouri Senate committee advances resolution to trigger abortion ban when Roe is overturned

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A state Senate committee on Tuesday advanced legislation to trigger Missouri’s near-total abortion ban if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

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If Missouri’s abortion ban is triggered, showdown over state constitution likely ahead

If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft opinion indicates it will, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will soon after issue a legal opinion confirming the decision and triggering a near-total abortion ban in the state.

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Draft Supreme Court decision would end nearly all abortion in MO, raise stakes of KS vote

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Abortions in Missouri will become illegal in all but the rarest of circumstances, under a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized the procedure nationwide.

WEKU

Why many Missouri Republicans fear Eric Greitens could win the state's Senate primary

Some Republicans worry that if the scandal-plagued former governor were to win the primary, it would place a Senate seat considered to be safely GOP in jeopardy.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Missouri GOP voters are finally starting to see Greitens' unfitness for office

The fever surrounding former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens might finally be starting to break. Greitens had been leading a crowded field for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination despite the credible allegations of physical and sexual violence that drove him from the governor’s office four years ago. But after recent, additional…

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The Independent UK

Perjury trial nears for investigator in Greitens case

Jury selection begins Thursday in St. Louis in the perjury and evidence tampering trial of the man whose investigation played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018

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