The Missouri Catholic Conference strongly supports HB 400, since it provides reasonable regulations on the administration and use of RU-486, and will prevent Missouri abortion providers from participating in telemedicine abortion procedures.
While modern technological advances have provided us with many blessings, it unfortunately has also made abortion available through the use of chemical drugs, ostensibly with the goal of making the process of having an abortion less invasive and expensive. The Internet and video conferencing also make abortion more accessible in some states, presumably for the sake of convenience. Needless to say, the MCC believes that such practices should be vigorously resisted.
In speaking against such modern developments, Pope John Paul II lamented the spread of what he termed a "conspiracy against life," stating:
In order to facilitate the spread of abortion, enormous sums of money have been invested and continue to be invested in the production of pharmaceutical products, which make it possible to kill the fetus in the mother's womb without recourse to medical assistance. On this point, scientific research itself seems almost exclusively preoccupied with developing products which are ever more simple and effective in suppressing life and which at the same time are capable of removing abortion from any kind of control or social responsibility. (Evangelium Vitae, No.13, emphasis in original)
The common good demands that we avoid falling into the trap of spreading the evil of abortion at all, much less through the misappropriation of modern technology. Let your Missouri Senator hear from you!
