Missouri Senate Action Alert

From Missouri Right to Life:

ACTION ALERT - PLEASE CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR

The last week of March the Missouri House approved HCS HB 2007 with language that appropriates money to the Life Science Research Board for both animal and human research and that funds the salary for the executive director of the Missouri Technology Corporation. Missouri Right to Life objected to HCS HB 2007 based on Amendment 2 restrictions and our inability to prevent this money from going for life-destroying research.

We supported two amendments to zero out the objectionable appropriations. We also suggested that the Department of Agriculture could be the venue through which funding for plant and animal science research could be funded and not fall under the restrictions of Amendment 2.

Both the amendments were defeated and funding for life-destroying research is still in our state budget in HCS HB 2007.

The Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee has begun work on the state budget as of Tuesday, April 1st.

Please call your State Senator and ask them to support the two amendments provided in MRL's memorandum to all the members of the Missouri Senate dated March 31 (see link below).

Also, please call all the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and ask them to add to the bill the two amendments that they received in MRL's memorandum. Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are:

Chairman, Senator Gary Nodler (R)
573-751-2306

Vice-Chairman, Senator Rob Mayer (R)
573-751-3859

Senator Norma Champion (R)
573-751-2583

Senator Chuck Purgason (R)
573-751-1882

Senator Luann Ridgeway (R)
573-751-2547

Senator Scott Rupp (R)
573-751-1282

Senator Frank Barnitz (D)
573-751-2108

Senator Joan Bray (D)
573-751-2514

Senator Tim Green (D)
573-751-2420

Senator Yvonne Wilson (D)
573-751-9758

For more information on this, please read the memorandum distributed to the Missouri Senate on Monday, March 31st after the House voted to advance HCS HB 2007. The memo can be found on-line [here].

Thank you!
Pam Fichter, President