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Missouri parents and children deserve more access to sexual and reproductive health care. Restrictions on reproductive health care access lead to poor reproductive health outcomes.”
-Mallory Schwarz, AAM Executive Director
“Abortion has been so stigmatized and surrounded by so much shame,” [AAM Executive Director Mallory Schwarz] says. “I think we want to be in a position where we can move the most expansive policy possible,” Schwarz says. “We also recognize that a lot of Missourians are being harmed right now by living in a state with a total ban. Part of our consideration is we need to do both things. We need to mitigate the harm right now as much as we possibly can, while continuing to fight for the most expansive policy possible.”
Schwarz calls Corley’s proposals “an anti-abortion, Republican trap— designed to allow anti-abortion politicians to appear ‘moderate’ while not actually changing anything about the current inaccessibility of abortion in Missouri.”
“Anti-abortion folks try to publicly distance themselves from bills like this, because they know that
criminalization is politically unpopular… It’s really more for messaging purposes while knowing full well, that the bills that they do lobby on and support actually lead to criminalization of pregnancy
outcomes already.”
-Maggie Olivia, AAM Senior Policy Manager
“…It frankly isn’t enough to only call out politicians on the campaign trail… We call on the Biden administration to protect pregnant Missourians, and everyone, from criminalization for their pregnancy outcomes.”
-Mallory Schwarz, AAM Executive Director
“The anti-abortion supermajority is scared; they know that abortion is popular and that if given the opportunity, Missourians — like Kansans, like we expect to see from Ohioans– would vote to restore abortion access.”
-Mallory Schwarz, AAM Executive Director
Now, the highest court in the state has affirmed what we’ve known all along:
Jay Ashcroft lies his ass off, he is clearly unfit for the office he holds, much less the governor’s mansion.”
-Mallory Schwarz, AAM Executive Director
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