New Missouri Bill Would Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Business
January 4, 2022 | Missouri
Pro-life lawmakers in Missouri hope 2022 will be the year when the state legislature finally succeeds in defunding the abortion chain Planned Parenthood of their tax dollars.
The Missouri Independent reports lawmakers filed several bills ahead of the new legislative session this week that would cut off tax dollars to the only abortion facility in the state, a Planned Parenthood in St. Louis.
One bill, Senate Bill 637 sponsored by state Sen. Bob Onder, R-Lake St. Louis, would prohibit abortion facilities and their affiliates from participating in the state Medicaid program, MO HealthNet, according to the report.
Nationally, Planned Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year, the majority of it through Medicaid. Though the federal government and most states, including Missouri, prohibit taxpayer funding for abortions in Medicaid, pro-life leaders say the money that goes to Planned Parenthood still indirectly supports the killing of unborn babies in abortions…. (Excerpts from LIFESITE NEWS.COM)
