Impact of abortion ban vote in Missouri

Published: Sep 12, 2024 Duration: 00:02:41 Category: News & Politics

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Abortion rights advocates are preparing to spend more than $1 million on TV. Ads ahead of November's vote to overturn Missouri's abortion ban. The question could have a major impact on other key races too. Our political editor Mark Maxwell is in the newsroom to explain. Yeah, over the next eight weeks, you'll start to see a lot of political ads with emotional stories about abortion, but you won't only see them on the TV. Airwaves. You're also going to start seeing them on the side of the road were gathered to unveil a powerful message, the Missouri Democracy project in progress, Missouri staged a press conference Thursday morning outside the downtown Federal building home to the government office of Senator Josh Hawley. This billboard is a symbol of Hawley's extremist agenda. One that seeks to take away our personal freedoms. Ashley Mosley is a health care worker and mother who became pregnant in 2007. And after medical complications had an abortion, I just would have never thought in a million years that I would grow up and be here in 2024 and have to fight for my own body and my reproductive freedom. She hopes her story and the message going up along. I 270 in North ST Louis County will encourage other women to tell their personal stories of painful pregnancies. Coming to an expected end. Still don't be afraid. You know, your voice matters and it's very important that you're heard because that one testimony could make a difference. The billboard takes aim at first term. Senator Josh Hawley who recently said he opposes the most unpopular parts of Missouri's abortion ban though he plans to vote to keep it in place this November. I favor exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother. And so I will vote for that. No, I said I favor exceptions for rape, incest life of the mother and I will vote for the pro life position. She claimed that I want to deny people IVF treatment when in fact, I want to require insurance companies to pay for it. Hawley's democratic challenger Lucas Koonz called Donald Trump's free IVF proposal. A no brainer and endorsed the plan even as some voters fear it may be an empty promise and seeing that it has a $140,000 price tag. I don't believe Trump will pay for IVF. Hope so. I met advanced maternal age and I might need IVF too. Heather Lindsay said family planning doesn't always come down to medical issues alone but financial pressures too, the world is getting so expensive for us. Millennials that a lot of us are choosing not to have Children at all. I want to have a family and Missouri is a scary place to be pregnant. They don't play out in the hospital the same way that they imagine them to play out when they write that legislation. I asked Senator Hawley's campaign if he supports President Trump's plan to cover free IVF treatments. They dodged that specific question only offering a vague claim that quote, Josh supports IVF, then quickly pivoting to politics asking quote, is Kunz voting for Trump or Kamala Harris.

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