Gov. Eric Greitens is recalling lawmakers for another special session, this time in a direct challenge to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling warning states against overt efforts to restrict abortion rights.
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At a press conference June 8 at Our Lady's Inn, Greitens said his visit was to draw attention to the work of pregnancy care centers.
He said his pro-life stand was motivated in part from witnessing "the value of true love and compassion in one of Mother Teresa's homes for the destitute and dying". Opponents said the law would bar any individual or entity, including Christian organizations, from refusing to sell or rent property to individuals or businesses that promote or provide abortions.
Back in February, Green sponsored a bill that would add reproductive health decisions to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance.
Days after the legislature's regular session ended in May, a group of St. Louis Catholics filed a lawsuit challenging the city ordinance.
Greitens said the Senate failed to act on this during the regular session.
"The city of St. Louis doesn't support discrimination of any kind", Krewson said.
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"We thank him for calling back the Missouri state legislature to address the health and safety of women inside abortion facilities and to undo the chilling action taken by the city of St. Louis to declare the city an 'abortion sanctuary, '" Dannenfelser said. "It is to protect the pregnancy care centers so that they can do this really important work so that they are not driven into court by radical politicians".
Some of the issues set for discussion in Missouri's upcoming special legislative session on abortion aren't entirely defined.
The session will be focusing on protecting pregnancy resource centers and proposals for common-sense health and safety standards in abortions clinics throughout Missouri.
We're proposing, for example, that abortion clinics should have an annual safety inspection. He contended that abortion clinics now can tell an ambulance to come slowly, not to use lights and sirens, or go around to the back of the clinic.
According to the governor, a court decision weakened health standards for abortion clinics.
That came in response to a federal judge's ruling in April that blocked requirements for clinics to meet standards for surgical centers and for doctors to have hospital privileges.
Allison Dreith, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, said the decision to bring lawmakers back to the Capitol to deal with these issues "is an appalling example of out-of-touch priorities".
But critics of pregnancy resource centers, which are also known as crisis pregnancy centers, contend they often pose as medical clinics while providing inaccurate information created to scare women away from having an abortion, most notably that abortion is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer and that abortion can lead to mental-health disorders.
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