{"id":1554838,"date":"2022-07-14T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554838"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:51:18","slug":"missouri-county-set-to-spend-federal-pandemic-relief-money-on-out-of-state-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-county-set-to-spend-federal-pandemic-relief-money-on-out-of-state-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri County Set to Spend Federal Pandemic Relief Money on Out-of-State Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-county-set-to-spend-federal-pandemic-relief-money-on-out-of-state-abortions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Despite warnings from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, some members of the St. Louis County Council want to allocate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> relief funds for the purpose of reimbursing women for abortions they secure in other states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why St. Louis Democrats believe this is even legal,\u201d said Paul Berry, a Republican who is campaigning to represent Missouri\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Joe Biden thought utilizing COVID funds for out-of-state travel to have abortions was a viable plan, he probably would have said so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allocation was proposed by Councilwoman Lisa Clancy who called for $1 million of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to be allocated to nonprofits for the facilitation of transportation and lodging for pregnant women seeking an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a> outside of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the law that allows us to spend this money because you disagree with the Supreme Court decision,\u201d said St. Louis County Councilman Tim Fitch (R-District 3) who voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissouri state law prohibits using any kind of tax dollars for the purposes of obtaining an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clancy declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I spoke against it, I asked whether we\u2019ll cover people who need to travel to the Mayo clinic in Minnesota for cancer treatment and no, it won\u2019t,\u201d Fitch told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>On June 28, the council approved 4-3 a <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisco.civicweb.net\/filepro\/documents\/search\/search?keywords=abortion&#038;page=1&#038;location=24165%2C3572%2C19992&#038;preview=90093&#038;attachmenturl=%2Fdocument%2F89787\">resolution<\/a> that condemns the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of Roe v. Wade, which was introduced jointly by Councilwomen Rita Heard Days, Kelli Dunaway and Shalonda Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Days nor Webb responded to requests for comment, while Dunaway declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis County isn\u2019t the only location in the state looking to offer assistance to pregnant women seeking out-of-state abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City and St. Louis City have also vowed to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s appalling,\u201d said State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite warnings from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, some members of the St. Louis County Council want to allocate COVID-19 relief funds for the purpose of reimbursing women for abortions they secure in other states. \u201cI don\u2019t understand why St. Louis Democrats believe this is even legal,\u201d said Paul Berry, a Republican who is campaigning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}