Issue Position: Protecting Innocent Life and Values

Issue Position

I am 100% pro-life and have a record to prove it, consistently receiving high ratings from Missouri Right-to-Life. When I was Speaker of the House, we ended public funding of abortions and put in place Missouri's first mandatory waiting period for abortions.I have continued my fight to protect the unborn by speaking at Planned Parenthood protests, calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood and calling upon our state legislature and Governor to increase the state penalties for trafficking baby organs and tissue.

In our nation's Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson put the Right to Life first among all rights, and as Governor I too will always put Life first.

If elected, I will seek to make Missouri the nation's leader in protecting life.
Action Plan:
*Increase the state penalties for fetal organ sales like the ones we heard about in the Planned Parenthood videos, making them a felony instead of a simple misdemeanor as they are now;

*Defund Planned Parenthood immediately and send the money that would have gone to the 13 Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri to the 588 federally qualified health clinics and rural health clinics. This would expand access to care, especially in rural areas, while eliminating state funding for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry;

*Pass a pain-capable unborn child protection act, banning abortions on all unborn children who are past the 20-week mark at which they begin to feel pain;

*Press for a ban on sex-selective abortions and other barbaric practices that should have long ago disappeared from this country.

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