GOOD NEWS: Supreme Court Rejected The Hawley Family’s Latest Attack On Reproductive Freedom
Last week, the United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a safe and effective miscarriage management medication, throwing out Josh Hawley’s wife, Erin Hawley’s sham lawsuit to ban the medicine entirely. More than 6 million people have safely used this medication since it was approved by the FDA in 2000.
Earlier this year, Hawley himself was revealed to be one of the pioneers of a nationwide push to restrict access to in vitro fertilization care. Republicans in the Missouri State Legislature followed Hawley’s leadership and voted against protecting contraceptives and IVF services this legislative session in their crusade against reproductive and family planning freedom. These relentless attacks on basic healthcare services have had dire consequences in our communities as more than half of rural hospitals in Missouri no longer deliver babies and fewer and fewer future doctors are selecting Missouri to complete their residencies.
“Despite, Missouri being home to one of the most extreme and cruel, near-total abortion bans in the country, which makes no exceptions for rape or incest, the Hawleys have made attacking our rights to plan our families in private their business venture, and Missouri families are paying the price,” said Missouri State Representative and Secretary of State Candidate Barbara Phifer. “The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to protect this medication is a major win, but extremist politicians, like the Hawleys, have demonstrated they are hell-bent on continuing these attacks. Instead of working to improve access to quality, affordable healthcare, Missouri Republicans have been working relentlessly to attack our freedom and gut access to basic care and have shown no signs of stopping.”
ICYMI: Brownback Advisor That Bankrupted Kansas’s Public Schools Throws Support Behind Kehoe, Rebuking Ashcroft’s Courtship
Despite having been publicly courted by Republican Secretary of State and Gubernatorial Candidate Jay Ashcroft for months, tonight, former Brownback advisor Art Laffer will be the featured guest at a fundraiser for Gubernatorial Candidate Mike Kehoe.
In March, Ashcroft released his tax “plan,” which enlisted “some of the well-known conservative economists and low-tax advocates that advised then-Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on a massive tax cut enacted in that state in 2012,” which helped result in “Republicans losing the Kansas governorship in the 2018 election,” the Missouri Independent reported.
Art Laffer was named as an “expert” that Ashcroft plans to “appoint” to a “task force” to “make recommendations” on Missouri’s budget and economy. Laffer was one of the architects of former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s dangerous and reckless “tax experiment” that tanked Kansas’s economy, underfunded public schools, and robbed the state’s highway fund to cut taxes for the most wealthy. Brownback’s disastrous “tax experiment” was so destructive and unpopular that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature came together to reverse it, and paved the way for Democratic Governor Laura Kelly to win her election.
IN THE NEWS 
St. Louis Public Radio: How the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Affects Missouri and Illinois
Iowa Capitol Dispatch: Heartland Legislatures Prove Skeptical of Industrial AG’s Efforts to Dodge Accountability
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Lawsuits Say Missouri Budget Writer [Scott Cupps R-Shell Knob] Hasn’t Paid His Bills
Kansas City Beacon: Why Rural Missouri Schools and Hospitals Might Become Homebuyers
Kansas City Star: Ashcroft’s Campaign for MO Governor Faces 2nd Ethics Complaint Alleging Illegal Coordination
Missouri Independent: ‘No protection’: Missouri Advocates Sound Alarm After IVF Safeguards Stymied in Legislature
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South Central Missouri Democrats Truman Breakfast
July 28, 2024
South Central Missouri Democrats represent a coalition of 13 county committees, clubs, or associated Democratic groups. We are 12 counties, 10 State House Districts, 4 State Senate seats, and three Congressional Districts.
This event will held Sunday, July 28, 2024, with brunch at 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Humboldt 1854
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Crocker, MO 65452-2239
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