This week Missouri legislators returned to the Missouri State Capitol to pass the supplemental budget (HB 2014) to finish out the FY 2020 budget year which includes funding for the current Corona virus crisis. The state’s business was done under the guidelines of Governor Parson’s social distancing order. HB 2014 includes the pro-life protective language supported by Missouri Right to Life to prevent any funding from being used for abortion or abortion services.

In this time of crisis your Missouri Right to Life team is still working to ensure that abortion does not become an “essential” part of our healthcare in Missouri or in Washington.

As we come to Easter Sunday, like we have never seen before, remember to pray for President Trump, Governor Parson and our state leaders as they do the people’s business and lead us through this time of crisis. They are working to help our state and nation get back to normal and defeat this deadly virus.

There are so many great heroes all around us that continue to work in this crisis to help people get what they need for their families. Thank them as you encounter them. Thank you for being a hero over the years in the battle to save innocent human lives!

Continue to pray for those in the abortion business that are operating in the darkness of taking innocent human lives. Help us to help them see that all innocent lives are precious.

Have a blessed Easter. We serve a risen Savior! Stay safe, follow the safety guidelines, be calm, look out for your family and neighbors and pray constantly.

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Advance Directives for a Natural End of Life

Continuing a series on pro-life advance directives by Jim Cole, MRL General Counsel.

II. A natural death with dignity

The most important question raised by end-of-life issues is how human life is to be protected and human dignity promoted. A living person, no matter how impaired, does not gain dignity by being turned into a corpse. One gains meaning in life by using the time of approaching death to make one's peace with family, friends, and for believers, with God. Human life and dignity are protected by allowing death to occur after ordinary means of preserving life eventually run out, but not forcing it before.

A side note is needed here. Some think that pro-lifers want to keep patients alive using any and all means available for as long as medical technology allows. Not true. All of us know and accept that there comes a time to end further efforts and let a person die a natural death. But that is different from pushing a person into death more quickly.

A well-written advance directive is one tool to use to attempt to forestall pressures from other people for a premature death.

Life Links

As the Threat of Triage Grows, Disability Rights Advocacy Is Needed More Than Ever

Link - On Friday, April 3rd, six leading disability rights attorneys and their respective organizations issued a statement entitled Applying HHS’s Guidance for States and Health Care Providers on Avoiding Disability-Based Discrimination in Treatment Rationing.

Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood Open ‘for Abortion Services Only’

Link - Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania has dropped its in-person birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, announcing its clinics are open “for abortion services only.”

Alicia Keys reveals why she chose life over abortion for her second child: 'How could I take away the potential for this beautiful child'

Link - Her dilemma is one felt by many women who get pregnant, especially those who may lack the resources and support of a famous singer.

Pro-life leaders scrutinize WHO funding amid support for abortion during COVID-19 outbreak

Link - A host of pro-life leaders questioned whether the U.S. should continue funding the World Health Organization (WHO) after it voiced support for abortion during the coronavirus pandemic.

Euthanasia doctor drafts Ontario’s coronavirus triage protocol deciding who gets care

Link - A doctor who has euthanized people and lobbied to legalize lethal injection for sick patients in Canada is behind Ontario’s proposed coronavirus triage protocol.

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

Link - Consider the creeping normalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Western societies in recent decades. We should be disturbed.

National Right to Life News

Link - The latest issue of National Right to Life News is available online. Please share widely with pro-life friends and family!

Pro-Life Around the State

St. Louis - News from Defenders of the Unborn: All prayer vigils at Planned Parenthood mill and away from the abortion mill have been cancelled until further notice. Our next event was scheduled for April 18th our annual banquet. It has also been cancelled. We will review the status again on May 30, 2020, to see if we will be having our Jericho walk.

May 30 - Jefferson City - Pregnancy Help Center 5K Walk/Run, 8:30 am in Memorial Park.

June 26-27 - Virginia - Join us in Herndon, VA for the 50th annual National Right to Life Convention. Register today at nrlconvention.com

MRL Eastern Region has copies of Abby Johnson’s presentation at the 43rd Annual Respect Life Convention, October 13, in St. Louis. They also have copies of the movies Gosnell and Unplanned. If anyone would like to arrange a showing in their chapter or church group, please contact [email protected].