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Missouri Roundtable For Life Files Federal Lawsuit Against Carnahan and Montee

moroundtable — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:59:08 +0000

Missouri Roundtable For Life has filed a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Auditor Susan Montee for deprivation of Missouri Roundtable’s constitutional rights to due process, free speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. To read more, click MRFL Press Release.

Representative Cynthia Davis Files Missouri Taxpayer Protection Amendment as H.J.R. 49

moroundtable — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:45:03 +0000

Representative Cynthia Davis (R-O’Fallon), the Chairwoman of the Special Standing Committee on Children and Families in the Missouri House, on the first day legislators can pre-file bills and amendments for the 2010 legislative session, filed a House Joint Resolution, H.J.R. 49, that would prohibit Missouri tax dollars from being spent on abortions not medically necessary to save the life of the mother, abortion services, human cloning, and embryo destructive research. To see the entire press release, please click here.

MRFL Treasurer Fred G. Sauer’s Response to St. Louis Business Journal’s Distorted and Misleading Editorial

moroundtable — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:57:19 +0000

Fred G. Sauer, Ph.D., MRFL Treasurer, sent the following Letter to Editor to the St. Louis Business Journal. The Journal published it in the October 9, 2009 edition. Below is the entire text of the letter:

Shame on the St. Louis Business Journal for writing such a disingenuous editorial (“Stop the Madness”, 9/25/09).

Missouri Roundtable For Life has filed initiative petitions to protect taxpayer dollars from being spent on abortion, somatic cell nuclear transfer (human cloning), and research that destroys human embryos. No taxpayer funds for other activities or research would be affected. And no private funds would be affected in any way.

The editorial’s insinuation that grandmothers will lose their memories and children’s sight will dim if we don’t spend taxpayer dollars on abortion and embryo-destructive research is absurd.

The truth is that scientists can now create early-stage stem cells with all the characteristics of embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos (see Yu et al, Science 318:1917-20, 2007; Takahashi et al, Cell 131:1-12, 2007; Woltjen et al, Nature, published online 3/1/09). These rapid advances in science have rendered the Business Journal’s fascination with embryo-destructive research woefully out of date.

Let’s protect taxpayer dollars from being spent on activities that Missourians find objectionable so that scientists can focus on research that is yielding results.

Sincerely,

Frederic G. Sauer, Ph.D
Missouri Roundtable For Life

St. Louis Business Journal Editorial Distorts MRFL’s Fight to Protect Missouri Taxpayer Dollars

moroundtable — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:49:14 +0000

On September 25, 2009, the St. Louis Business Journal published a distorted and misleading editorial about Missouri Roundtable For Life’s efforts to protect Missouri taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions, human cloning and research on embryos. To read the editorial, click on the following link.

MRFL Files Initiative To Stop Tax Dollars From Being Used For Abortion, Human Cloning and Other Destructive Human Research

moroundtable — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:33:49 +0000

Missouri Roundtable For Life, a grassroots organization focused on citizens’ interests with regards to a range of life issues, filed language with Secretary of State Robin Carnahan on Friday to put a citizen initiative on the November 2010 ballot. The initiative, entitled the Missouri Taxpayer Protection Amendment, would protect Missourian’s hard-earned tax dollars from being used for abortions not medically necessary to save the life of the mother, abortion services, human cloning and other controversial human research. To read more about these developments, visit our latest press release.

MRFL Played Vital Role During Legislative Session

moroundtable — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:12:49 +0000

Missouri Roundtable For Life had a great deal of success during the just completed 2009 Legislative Session. First, MRFL helped pass the budget by clarifying that the Legislature can restrict tax dollars from going to abortion services and human cloning. Second, MRFL was pleased that our Taxpayer Protection Amendment was successfully filed in both the House and Senate and will be a priority in 2010. Finally, MRFL is gratified that Judge Callahan dismissed the Redmond case. To read more about these developments, visit our latest press release.

MRFL Chairman Fred N. Sauer Urges President Obama to Keep “Provider Refusal Rule”

moroundtable — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:21:09 +0000

April 6, 2009

Hon. Charles E. Johnson
Acting Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20201

Re: Rescission Proposal

Dear Acting Secretary Johnson:

On behalf of Missouri Roundtable For Life, a Missouri pro-life organization dedicated to protecting the most vulnerable in our society, I am writing you to object to the proposed reversal of the “Provider Refusal Rule.” The extension of the “conscience clause” to protect the rights of health-care professionals to refuse to perform procedures and services that violate their religious and moral beliefs is an important protection of freedom of conscience and religion.

The daily burdens on our health-care professionals in performing their critical and important duties are great. Requiring these hard-working individuals to set-aside their religious and moral beliefs in their mandatory performance of services they deem morally and ethically wrong would undermine the very freedoms our founding fathers fought so hard to establish and protect. Government does not have the right to impose its own conscience on our health-care professionals. Each of our health-care professionals must have the right to exercise their own moral judgment in making life and death decisions on a daily basis. Without that individual right to act on one’s own moral and religious belief would violate every tenet of who we are as Americans.

Missouri Roundtable For Life strenuously urges you to withdraw the planned reversal of the “Provider Refusal Rule.” Freedom of conscience and religion demand it.

Sincerely,

Fred N. Sauer

Chairman of the Board of Directors,
Missouri Roundtable For Life

Statement From Fred N. Sauer, MRFL Chairman of the Board

moroundtable — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:43:02 +0000

Statement of Fred N. Sauer, Chairman of Missouri Roundtable For Life Board of Directors, regarding Governor Tim Kaine’s recent actions to protect taxpayer dollars:

We are delighted that current Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and current Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine, who is a Missouri native, has signed into law a bill that prevents taxpayer dollars from being spent on research using human tissue derived from abortions or using stem cells derived from the destruction of human embryos.

We believe that this confirms the bipartisan wisdom of preventing taxpayer dollars from being spent on activities that destroy human life. We encourage the Missouri legislature to protect Missouri public funds in same way by placing the Taxpayer Protection Amendment on the ballot, which would ensure that public funds are not spent on abortion services, human cloning, and other research that destroys human embryos.

The citizens and taxpayer of Missouri deserve this protection.

State Tax Dollars Out of Favor Nationally

moroundtable — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:24:53 +0000

NPR has an interesting article on its website. Some states are re-thinking their committment to using state tax dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research. To read more, go to NPR’s website.

Welcome to moroundtable.org

kris — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:27:39 +0000

Welcome to the all new redesigned www.moroundtable.org. We hope you like our new website design, and would like to take this opportunity to point out some upgrades we’re working on. One is an Upcoming Events, here you’ll find all the important upcoming events related to our struggle. Another is the Invite a Friend page, that will let you send an email from our website to your friends and families letting them know about our site and inviting them to visit us. Also new is the email newsletter sign up, that we added so you can sign up for an email newsletter from us. We’ve also re-organized our old pages, we think you’ll find the new site much easier to browser through and easier to find what you want.