Thu Dec 23, 2021 – 4:18 pm EST
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (LifeSiteNews) — A Missouri lawmaker has introduced legislation that would effectively ban nearly all abortions in the state.
The Empower Women, Promote Life Act — also known as House Bill 1987 — proposed by State Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman is similar to the Texas Heartbeat Act which prohibits abortion once a baby’s heartbeat becomes detectable, typically at around six weeks’ gestation.
Like the Texas law, Missouri’s HB 1987 would empower citizens rather than the state, essentially deputizing them to sue abortionists and anyone else, other than the mother, who facilitates an abortion of a baby with a detectable heartbeat.
The measure would also defund the sole abortion provider in the state, Planned Parenthood, which already has plans in the works to open a clinic in Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in order to continue to abort children of Missouri women.
“We must pass comprehensive pro-life legislation that defunds Planned Parenthood by enacting the Empower Women, Promote Life Act,” said Coleman. “This important piece of legislation will provide protection to children born in a botched abortion, ban the inhumane practice of dismemberment abortions, and follows Texas’ lead by providing a civil course of action for
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