View as Webpage ‌ ‌ ‌ 2020 PRO-LIFE ACTION DAY We need you in Jefferson City on Tuesday, March 10! The most important life event you can plan for in 2020 is to attend Pro-Life Action Day on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Missouri State Capitol. Come honor former Missouri Governor and U.S. Attorney General, the Honorable John Ashcroft for his many years of pro-life public service. Please print off the “Show Me Life” Action Day flyer and distribute to your pro-life friends, family and church members. [link removed] Your attendance at lobby day is essential to the passage of solid pro-life legislation and defunding Planned Parenthood! See you in Jefferson City on March 10 at the “Show Me Life Action Day”! NOTE REGARDING MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE PAC OPPOSITION TO MEDICAID EXPANSION: As you read the following statement regarding Missouri Right to Life State PAC opposition to Medicaid Expansion, remember, the pro-abortion supporters of Medicaid Expansion are asking you to put Medicaid Expansion into the Missouri Constitution without taking into account the very real risk that Congress will abandon the pro-life protections of the annual ‘Hyde Amendment.’ The Hyde Amendment has to be enacted every year or it dies. It is under attack in election campaigns all over the country. The proponents of expansion are counting on a future when those who support abortion are in control of Congress and will then refuse to pass the ‘Hyde Amendment’. Missouri should not greatly expand the pool of women who will be eligible for government-funded abortions in view of the risk that the Hyde Amendment may not survive to protect their unborn children. A proposal to place a Medicaid expansion program into the Missouri Constitution is contained in Initiative no. 2020-063 (as numbered by the Secretary of State). Proponents are seeking signatures from voters to put it on the ballot in the fall. The proposal ignores the growing danger that the Hyde Amendment will be terminated in the near future, leaving unborn children completely exposed to governmental funding of abortions if their mothers are covered by Medicaid. The proposal also means greatly expanding current Medicaid funding of abortions of newly-formed human beings by means of prescriptions of the so-called "morning after" pills. For pro-life reasons, pro-lifers find Initiative 2020-063 unacceptable. Abortions are not health care, and Missouri should not expand a program that will pay for more of them. Read more here: [link removed] Click here for the full update -- including an urgent action alert. MRL Executive Director Susan Klein, with MRL board members Jerry Nieters and Dave Plemmons at Statewide Lincoln Days in Springfield, MO. Life Links Missouri Right to Life Pro-Life Congressmen and women stand up to tell the truth about the pro-abortion ERA. Here is what Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler said about last week’s House actions on the pro-abortion ERA: The time limit to pass the ERA expired decades ago. Congress can’t go back and remove a deadline from a previous constitutional amendment initiative. The Supreme Court has recognized that the 1972 ERA expired, and the Department of Justice issued a ruling saying, “Congress may not revive a proposed amendment after a deadline for its ratification has expired.” Pretending we can remove the time limits for passage is both futile and deceptive. Read more. George Soros Funds Campaign Attacking Pregnancy Centers That Provide Abortion Alternatives Link - A left-leaning UK-based website backed by a fiscal clearinghouse for billionaire social justice investor George Soros is the latest group to try its hand at discrediting on-the-ground pro-life work with the claim that pregnancy help centers are misleading women. Pro-Abortion Group Highlights Effectiveness of Mexico City Policy Link - A top abortion advocacy organization recently launched a report meant to discredit U.S. pro-life foreign policy, that instead demonstrated how the policy is supporting pro-life laws and norms in one African country. Mike Lee Slams Equal Rights Amendment as Part of ‘Radical Pro-Abortion Agenda’ Link - Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah) on Wednesday criticized the Equal Rights Amendment during a town hall appearance in Salt Lake City, Utah. The ERA Is a Zombie Amendment Link - Back from the Seventies. Sex education org depicts fetus as circular blob in video describing abortion procedures Link - Sex education organization AMAZE, which partners with the United Nations, has released a video depicting abortion as removing a circular blob from a woman's uterus. Let Them Live Link - The Senate is preparing to consider the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that exposes Democrats’ commitment to the logic of unlimited legal abortion. Resisting the doctors’ pressure to “reduce” (selectively abort) quadruplets Link - Michael’s parents dismissed the pro-abortion doctors and searched for new ones who truly respected the gift of life. Don't Listen to Doomsayers on Trump's Fetal Tissue Research Ban Link - No patients will die from limiting funding of human fetal tissue use for research. Pro-Life Around the State MRL Eastern Region has copies of Abby Johnson’s presentation at the 43rd Annual Respect Life Convention, October 13, in St. Louis. They also have copies of the movies Gosnell and Unplanned. If anyone would like to arrange a showing in their chapter or church group, please contact [email protected]. March 10 - Jefferson City - MRL Pro-Life Action Day at the Missouri State Capitol. Registration begins at 10 am, Rally at noon. Bus transportation is available from several sites in the St Louis metro and surrounding areas. Sign up online at www.easternregionmrl.org/actionday. Or contact Missouri Right to Life-Eastern Region at 314.434.4900 or email [email protected] to sign up or for further information. More information. March 19 - Moberly - Missouri Right to Life ~ Randolph County Chapter's Celebration of Life Dinner at the Moberly Municipal Auditorium 201 West Rollins. Doors Open 5:30 p.m. ~ Dinner 6:00 p.m. Featured Speaker: Jill Alberti. Click here for more information, including registration form. March 21 - Arkansas - Arkansas Right to Life (neighboring state) is co-hosting an End of Life conference in Little Rock on March 21. It is inexpensive and a one-day event. Click here for all the details. June 26-27 - Virginia - Join us in Herndon, VA for the 50th annual National Right to Life Convention. Register today at nrlconvention.com ‌ ‌ ‌ Missouri Right to Life | Post Office Box 651, Jefferson City, MO 65102 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!