Missouri 5th State to Opt Out of Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

Thursday July 15, 2010
By John Jalsevac
WASHINGTON

(LifeSiteNews.com) –Yesterday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon allowed SB 793 to become law without his signature. The law will significantly enhance the state's informed consent protections for pregnant women and make Missouri the fifth state to opt-out of the abortion mandate in the federal health care law.

A spokesman for the governor, Scott Holste, would not say whether the governor personally supports or opposes the abortion bill.

"Gov. Nixon believes that that given the legislative deliberations ... the appropriate action is to allow the bill to go into effect," Holste said, according to the Associated Press. the rest