By Rudi Keller | Deputy Editor
The Missouri Senate moved quickly Wednesday evening to approve a compromise bill establishing greater criminal penalties for healthcare providers who don’t provide life-saving care when an abortion attempt results in a live birth.
The Independent’s Anna Spoerre followed up Thursday with the Missouri House sponsor of similar legislation, who said he expected the House to advance the bill quickly without changes to Gov. Mike Kehoe.
State Rep. Brian Seitz, a Branson Republican, speaks during House debate on Feb. 11 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications).
by Anna Spoerre
The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” remains Missouri Republicans’ signature piece of abortion legislation this year as they work to fast-track it to passage before the legislative session ends next week.Summary of story.
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, a Memphis Democrat, speaks to a crowd of protesters on Tuesday, the first day of a special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Bill Lee to redraw Tennessee’s congressional districts. (Photo by Cassandra Stephenson/Tennessee Lookout)
by Jonathan Shorman
The day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addressed a virtual gathering for the group’s members and supporters where he ranked the landmark decision alongside the court’s most infamous cases.
Jockey James “Jimmy” Winkfield aboard Alan-a-Dale, the winner of the 1902 Kentucky Derby. Winkfield was the last Black jockey to win the Derby. (Public domain photo via Wikicommons)
COMMENTARY
by Michael A. Wolff
A history of the Kentucky Derby on display in a St. Louis bar reminds us that racial discrimination permeated every aspect of American life in the Jim Crow era.
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Housing advocates expect homelessness numbers to fall slightly | Robbie Sequeira
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