{"id":560,"date":"2023-12-15T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressmo.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2023-12-15T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:36:12","slug":"under-the-dome-dec-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/under-the-dome-dec-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Filing Antics Continue As Politicians Rush To Get Their Soundbite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome back to Under the Dome, your weekly update on the goings-on of the Missouri state legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists Convinced A Lawmaker To Withdraw A Bill Criminalizing Abortion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Missouri State Rep. Bob Titus, a Republican from Billings, proposed legislation that would have criminalized abortion<\/a>, putting women and doctors at risk of jail time for getting or providing necessary health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A national outcry soon followed \u2013 abortion was the most talked-about political topic in Missouri on Twitter\/X, and the President even commented on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The public pressure got to Rep. Titus, and he withdrew the bill. One version of the bill, filed in the senate by Senator Mike Moon from Ash Grove, remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawmakers Want To Make Life Harder For LGBTQ People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New bills filed this week show the legislature wants to continue its attempts to make life harder for LGBTQ people \u2013 just in time for campaign season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe single common theme that\u2019s happening right now is the legislature is attacking LGBTQ+ people and their very ability to exist on a day to day life,\u201d said Robert Fischer, a spokesperson for PROMO<\/a>. \u201cEveryone\u2019s trying to get their soundbite together for their campaign.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Proposals range from \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d-style education bans to bills that would make it illegal to use someone\u2019s preferred name in school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, activists talked a crazy legislator off a ledge, and lawmakers are using LGBTQ people for campaign soundbites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,40,41,48,61,62,65,73],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-legislature","tag-lgbtq","tag-missouri","tag-promo","tag-queer","tag-rights","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}