The Pathway reports on the end of the 2008 legislative session:
House Bill 1831 would have strengthened Missouri’s informed consent law and made it a crime to coerce a woman into having an abortion. The bill cleared the House 113-33 back in April but stalled in the Senate as time ran out May 16 on this year’s Legislature. Kerry Messer, lobbyist for the Christian Life Commission (CLC) of the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), called it “our biggest disappointment of the year.”