‘Are you serious?’ Missouri GOP bill would set up state database to ‘track pregnant women’
Missouri state Rep. Phil Amato (R) has introduced a bill that would require the state to maintain a database to track pregnant women who are at "risk" of having an abortion.
The Missouri House Democratic Caucus warned about Amato's HB 807 on social media this week.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" the group asked on Facebook. "Tomorrow in the Missouri House of Representatives, the Committee on Children and Families will discuss a bill that's being branded as a reform to the adoption system. In reality, HB 807 would require the state to TRACK PREGNANT WOMEN in a database."
"We have to imagine even conservative Missourians would be horrified by this idea. The elected Republicans in Jefferson City need to hear from us loud and often that this is an extreme government overreach and a creepy, draconian measure aimed at scaring our fellow citizens," the post added.
According to the bill's text, the "Save MO Babies Act" would establish a registry within the Department of Social Services the Division of Maternal and Child Resources under the guise of promoting adoptions.
"The Division is required to make and maintain a central registry of each expecting mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion and a central registry of each prospective adoptive parent who has successfully completed certain screenings, background checks, home studies, and other investigations to ensure the fit of the prospective parent to adopt a child," the bill said.
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"The Division can share records, information, and findings with federal, state, or local child welfare agency personnel and law enforcement agencies, including those outside of this state, in the performance of the Division's duties," the document warned.
According to Missouri's bill tracking system, a public hearing for the measure was held Tuesday morning.
‘Stephen, let’s calm down’: Yelling Trump aide berates host as he loses cool live on CNN
White House aide Stephen Miller launched into a barrage of shouting aimed at CNN's Brianna Keilar Tuesday as she grilled him on cuts being made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and the sensitive information the billionaire's team might be accessing.
An animated Miller proclaimed, "You may assert there is no waste in the Pentagon. You may assert there is no waste in Treasury. You may assert there's no wasted in HHS."
Keilar tried to interrupt, "Stephen. Stephen, I don't think anyone — "
"Then why are you not celebrating these cuts?" Miller exploded, raising his voice to shouting level. "If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted. Every day that no action is taken, the entire salaries of American workers that are taxed disappear forever!"
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"Stephen, let's calm down," Keilar admonished. "We're not having a debate —"
"Well, you're clearly trying to debate me, and I will be as excited as I want to be about the fact that we are saving Americans billions of dollars, that we are ending the theft and waste and grift and corruption, that we are stopping American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing a rogue federal bureaucracy that has been relentlessly weaponized against the American people."
Keilar and Miller continued to argue over one another until Keilar finally said, "Stephen, I'm just asking — I wanted to get your position on some things. We're not taking a position here, we wanted to get some answers."
Miller shot back, "It doesn't sound to me like you are indifferent or unbiased on these questions, but thank you."
His response left Keilar visibly shocked. She responded by saying goodbye.
Depleting vital resource plagues Trump’s DHS chief as his big promise flops: analysis
When former Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Homeland Security, he stated that his key goal was that "we’re not in the lead story every single day.”
According to Jonathan Derbyshire of the Financial Times, he has failed utterly in this goal, as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings have continued to generate public outrage, and DHS has continued to skirt all accountability for it.
Multiple ICE agents were involved in shooting deaths in the past few weeks in Texas and Maine. Shortly after, "ICE suspended vehicle stops in the wake of the shootings," with border czar Tom Homan calling it a "short pause just to make sure we're doing the right thing" — only for Trump to decree the pause over hours later on Truth Social.
Part of the issue for Mullin, said the report, is that he has done little to change the toxic hiring culture at the agency that is setting ICE up for abuses of power. "In January, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it had hired more than 12,000 officers and agents in less than a year and that it had received 'more than 220,000 applications to join ICE from patriotic Americans'" noted the report — but an Associated Press investigation suggests "many of those applying, and indeed a significant number of those who ended up getting hired, were unsuitable for the job."
Ultimately, Derbyshire continued, Mullin could end up falling from favor just as his predecessor Kristi Noem did — and the president's move to countermand the ICE traffic stop pause could be the first signs of it.
"Mullin would do well to remember that in this White House, presidential loyalty and support is a scarce and finite resource," he concluded.
