HB2012 creates the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” It also provides new provisions on the prohibited uses of fetal organs or tissue resulting from an abortion, establishes criminal offenses for trafficking abortion-inducing drugs and hoarding human remains, and declares the “right of the people of Missouri” to restrict public funds from being used for abortion.
The House passed HB2012 on April 6, 2022, by a vote of 91 to 37. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because states should act to ban abortion and guarantee the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.