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Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday threatened legal action against Kansas City, the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County if they use federal COVID-19 funds to help Missouri women get abortions outside the state.
Earlier this week, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said he would duplicate the action of the Board of Aldermen in the City of St. Louis and appropriate $1 million from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to help women with transportation, childcare or other needs while obtaining an abortion in Illinois or another state with legalized abortion.
“Using hard-earned taxpayer dollars, whether it be ARPA funds or other forms of revenue, to fund abortions is plainly illegal under Missouri law,” Schmitt, a candidate for the seat of retiring U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, said in a statement on Friday. “St. Louis City and County, and Kansas City, and any others who attempt to authorize taxpayer-funded abortions will be met with a lawsuit from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.”
During a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Page criticized Schmitt’s immediate action to implement Missouri’s “trigger law” outlawing abortion just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
“The state’s Attorney general, desperate for a higher office, was proud to proclaim Missouri abortions banned,” Page said. “But what he also proclaimed is he does not care about the health care of Missourians, especially women of color, and those who have been disproportionately impacted by lack of access to health care based on where they live.”
Schmitt’s statement also referred to a Missouri statute prohibiting the use of any public funds for the purpose of performing or assisting an abortion not necessary to save the life of the mother. Encouraging or counseling a woman to have an abortion that’s not lifesaving is also illegal, according to […]
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