“This bill establishes the ‘Save MO Babies Act’, establishing within the Department of Social Services the Division of Maternal and Child Resources, which has the purpose of coordinating and applying for services for expecting mothers who wish to place their baby for adoption and placing such babies for adoption with fit and proper adoptive parents,” says the text to Missouri state House Bill 807 as introduced last month by Republican state Representative Phil Amato.

“Additional powers, duties, and functions as they relate to the Division’s purpose are specified in the bill. Relevant sections of existing law governing the Department’s Family Support and Children’s Divisions are updated to include the Division of Maternal and Child Resources. The Division is required to establish a ‘Missouri Adoptive Resources Services System’ for the entire state, the function of which is to promote the safe and healthy birth of children in the state through the utilization of existing resources; coordinate community resources and provide assistance or services to expecting mothers identified to be at risk for seeking abortion services; and prevent abortions through the adoption of children by fit and proper adoptive parents. 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” and blah blah blah the whole thing is larded with way more “adoption” shit as to obscure the real purpose of this bill.