#missouri law

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Under a Missouri statute that has recently gained nationwide attention, every petitioner for divorce is required to disclose their pregnancy status. In practice, experts say, those who are pregnant are barred from legally dissolving their marriage. “The application [of the law] is an outright ban,” said Danielle Drake, attorney at Parks & Drake. When Drake learned her then husband was having an affair, her own divorce stalled because she was pregnant. Two other states have similar laws: Texas and Arkansas."

"Missouri is particularly restrictive when it comes to reproductive health and autonomy. It was one of the first to ban abortion after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, including in cases of rape and incest. Research shows that abortion restrictions can effectively give cover to reproductive coercion and sexual violence: the National Hotline for Domestic Violence said it saw a 99% increase in calls during the first year after the loss of the constitutional right to abortion."

"Advocates are currently trying to gather enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would make abortion legal until fetal viability, or around 24 weeks."

"In Missouri, homicide was the third leading cause of deaths in connection with pregnancy between 2018–2022, the majority (75%) of which occurred among Black women, according to a 2023 report by the Missouri department of health and senior services, which examines maternal mortality data. In every case, the perpetrator was a current or former partner. And in 2022, 23,252 individuals in the state received services after reporting domestic violence, according to the latest reporting from Missouri Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, which compiles data from direct service providers in the state."

The dystopia we speak of -across many of issues that women and marginalized folks face is HERE already. This is terrifying.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #current events #current news #missouri #missouri law #united states #partner abuse #tw abuse #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #violence against women #intimate partner violence #intimate partner abuse #divorce #relationship #us law #important #information #pregnancy #gender violence #bodily autonomy #womens rights #reproductive freedom #abortion is healthcare

[knockmeoutbabe]

I haven't seen ANYTHING about this on here, which is odd because of the community on this site but I might as well be the one to tell y'all.

Missouri's new bill proposed on trans rights, more specifically "social transitioning*," would convict trans-supporting teachers and put them on the sex offender list.

Any teacher supporting a trans kid, whether that be providing material or information, supportive resources, or using their new names and pronouns, could be convicted of a Class E felony, face up to 4 years in prison, and/or a fine up to $10,000. A conviction would also register them on the sex offender list.

R Rep Jamie Gregg has also mentioned that this will include anything relating to the LGBT in the classroom, such as books or posters.

Missouri residents can use this site to find and contact their local legislators: Legislative Branch (mo.gov)

A full copy of the bill: 5874H.01I.pdf (mo.gov)

Other news resources: X / X / X / X

*Social transitioning refers to the public changes a person does, such as changing their name and pronouns, or expressing their new gender with clothes or haircuts.

#transgender #trans rights #lgbtqia+ #contact your legislators!!!!! #missouri law #reblog reblog reblog

[ainthatjusthewayy]

This is horrifying. I can't believe anyone who works with the homeless would support a law like this. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before. As if police don't already target the homeless enough. There's nothing criminal or threatening to others about sleeping in a public place. If you're worried about the dangers of sleeping in a public place, maybe you should arrest the ones attacking people in their sleep instead of arresting the person you're outwardly saying is likely to be the victim of violence. If I get robbed on the street, the police don't get to arrest me for having a purse and being muggable. It's almost like you aren't supposed to arrest and blame victims or something? Not all homeless shelters are safe for everyone, some of them try to force religious beliefs on people seeking refuge, some outright refuse individuals because they're transgender or [insert other oppressed minority]. They don't take into consideration if you were turned away because a volunteer considered you unworthy of their time (and yes, even people who work for homelessness organizations can have biases and break the rules). They don't take into consideration if the shelter was full (because they do become full). Maybe a homeless person has a compromised immune system and a park bench is a safer place to be than in cramped quarters during a covid or flu outbreak. If it happens twice it's a class c misdemeanor that you can be fined as much as $750 for and be imprisoned for 15 days. Way to make it harder for people to get back on their feet. You could have a temporarily homeless person, as the great majority of homeless people are homeless temporarily, and then take any money they have, push them further into debt, and give them a criminal record that makes it near impossible to get a job and make it out of their situation. Just say you hate poor people. Why do people think that if they don't have to look at a situation and feel bad about it, it'll go away? This is worse for everyone. How did this law come into play without anyone noticing or caring? How do we change it?

#homelessness #tw politics #tw police #tw violence #low income #housing insecurity #missouri #missouri law #wealth disparity #injustice

[socialjusticeinamerica]

The United States is destabilized thanks to the NRA, Russia, the gun lobby, right-wing oligarchs and their puppets.

War torn third world states have less violence. We’re not safe anywhere.

#Missouri = Misery #republican assholes #maga morons #the nra is a terrorist organization #never trump #traitor trump #crooked donald #gun violence #gun control #assault weapons ban #gun deaths #corporate greed #common sense gun laws #maga paranoia prevents gun laws

[dragonwysper]

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Today 11:41 AM

Mom: What kid went to school high and ruined it for everyone?

Friend: what???

Mom: Dear (REDACTED) Families, Communication is important, and we strive to keep our families informed. This morning, our teaching staff suspected a student of being under the influence of marijuana. As a result, the student's backpack was searched, and a semi-automatic pistol loaded with 12 bullets was found. The student was immediately taken into police custody, and the appropriate consequences will follow at school and through law enforcement. The investigation is ongoing. We do believe this is an isolated incident.

Mom: Whoops I missed the part about a gun

Friend: jesus christ

/.End ID]

A friend's mom got this alert today. This is my school. We've had gun scares in the past that have all ended up being just threats, exaggerated rumors, and misinterpreted events. But this? This is fucking real. There was an actual physical gun in this kid's backpack.

He's a sophomore. My sister and her friends have personally talked to him. And he brought a loaded semi-auto to school.

I just. Am so fucking scared. If the teachers didn't smell marijuana on him? If they didn't care? If they chose to give him a stern warning instead of searching his bag? We might've had people die. I might've lost friends. I might've died myself. And we would've been added to the ever growing tally of school shootings in America.

How do you come back from this? When the only line of defense against a shooting is a teacher with a good nose and a stupid amount of luck? How do we possibly fix the legal and societal precedents that led to this? How do we recover?

At this point? I don't think we can. The cat's out of the bag. We can't convince the entirety of a largely radicalized nation to give up their guns, especially the high-risk people who need access to guns revoked the most. We can't fix this. And now? With the new laws going around? We're somehow letting more and more cats escape.

At what point do we stop to really think about what we're doing here? How many missed signs and dismissed warnings and unlucky slips and dead fucking kids do we have to see come to pass before we do something about it?

#school shooters #shooting threat #gun threat #school shootings #gun tw #gun laws #us politics #political #missouri laws #i am in missouri #missouri sucks #gun rights #gun control #gun violence #gun reform

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

For the third time in five weeks, a 16-year-old boy has died after sustaining on-the-job injuries at an industrial site, as lawmakers in several states advocate loosening child labor laws that protect minors from hazardous work.

The latest teen death was Friday night at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, authorities said. It’s the third worker death at the plant since December 2020.

Duvan Tomas Perez, who NBC News reported moved to the U.S. from Guatemala six years ago, was cleaning machinery as part of a sanitation crew when he became trapped in equipment on a conveyor belt. He died at the scene, police and the poultry company said.

The company said that it appears that the child “should not have been hired” and that his age and identity were misrepresented on his hiring paperwork with an outside staffing company.

“We are devastated at the loss of life and deeply regret that an underage individual was hired without our knowledge. The company is undertaking a thorough audit with the staffing companies to ensure that this kind of error never happens again,” it said in a statement Thursday to HuffPost.

His death follows two other teens’ deaths in Wisconsin and Missouri.

Michael Schuls, 16, died on June 29 after sustaining injuries at the Florence Hardwoods logging company in Florence, Wisconsin. Michael was attempting to unjam a wood-stacking machine when he became pinned under machinery on a conveyor belt, resulting in what the coroner identified as traumatic asphyxiation, The Associated Press reported.

Will Hampton, 16, died on June 8 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, after becoming injured while working at the Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park landfill. The high school sophomore became pinned between a tractor-trailer rig and its trailer, resulting in his death, police said in a statement.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating all three deaths, a Labor Department spokesperson confirmed to HuffPost.

OSHA has also made a referral to the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division for possible child labor violations concerning hazardous occupations in the Wisconsin case and a separate referral in the Missouri case to determine if the child was legally employed.

Federal labor laws allow children 16 and older to be employed in all occupations as long as the jobs are not declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor. The Labor Department’s website features a list of such hazardous occupations and specifies that “most jobs” in meat and poultry plants ― including equipment cleaning ― are banned.

Minors are also prohibited from being employed “inside and outside of places of businesses that use machinery to process wood products,” with a few exceptions, including if an adult relative supervises the child.

The Wisconsin teen’s father also worked at the sawmill and was at the site that day, Green Bay station WBAY reported, though the child was alone in the building when the incident happened, and he wasn’t found until 17 minutes later, The AP reported.

In the case of the Mississippi teen killed, the child wasn’t working directly for Mar-Jac Poultry as he had been hired by an outside agency. “These hiring companies often aren’t the most reliable when it comes to finding qualified, legal workers,” said Jordan Barab, former deputy assistant secretary of labor at OSHA from 2009 to 2017.

“These temp agencies don’t have any scruples at all. They don’t have any national reputation to uphold. They’re just trying to sell workers, basically,” he told HuffPost. “And then the main company claims they had no idea, the temp agency [says it] was ‘fooled by false certifications.’ Well, obviously this kid did not look 18.”

OSHA has been going after this “to a certain extent,” he said, with the administration citing both the place of employment and the hiring company when a regulation is broken.

Barab partially blamed the nation’s ongoing shortage of labor for the hiring of children because employers are trying to avoid paying more for qualified workers.

“You have some employers who are basically going after the most vulnerable workers, the workers with the least ability to fight back or question anything. Who could be more vulnerable than (A) children and (B) immigrant children?” Barab said.

The COVID-19 pandemic, affordable child care, a rise in remote work and retiring workers are among the reasons cited for the labor shortage.

Regardless of the risks, lawmakers in several states have proposed weakening child labor protections in a bid to expand the workforce with low-paying labor.

In Wisconsin, where one of the three children died, lawmakers are advocating for lowering the age to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants to 14. It would be a nationwide first if approved, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Another bill introduced in Minnesota proposes allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to work in or around construction sites.

In Iowa, the state Senate in April passed a bill that would allow children to work more days and longer hours, but in conflict with the current limits set by federal law, as Iowa State Daily reported.

The Biden administration back in April urged U.S. meat companies to ensure they are not unknowingly or knowingly hiring children illegally. This followed revelations that more than 100 children were working for a company that cleans slaughterhouses. The children’s work included handling hazardous equipment, like razor-sharp bone saws.

An estimated 160,000 children are injured annually in the U.S. while working. Of these injuries, 54,800 warrant emergency room treatment, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws has increased by 37% within the last year, according to a March report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The report identified 10 states that have introduced or passed bills within the last two years that would weaken child labor standards.

#us politics #news #huffington post #2023 #child labor #child labor laws #workplace deaths #working class #workers #worker's rights #workplace injuries #Duvan Tomas Perez #Mississippi #Mar-Jac Poultry #Michael Schuls #Florence Hardwoods #Wisconsin #Will Hampton #Missouri #Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park landfill #Occupational Safety and Health Administration #department of labor #biden administration #Jordan Barab #child labour #unfair labor practices #labor shortage #National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health #Economic Policy Institute

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

At first I was like “oh hey Missouri’s not so bad, it’s safe enough to be here” and then people started getting shot over football

#missouri #kansas city chiefs #kansas city missouri #shooting #cw guns #cw shooting #gun control #gun laws #gun violence #football #people are getting shot and my state government still thinks gun laws are ridiculous

[caffeinatedopossum]

Who wants to go to Missouri with me and fucking RIOT right now

#if you dont know what im talking about look up Missouri anti trans laws #i used to live there and i am just so disappointed and outraged but i cant say im shocked

[ninjamonkeystudios]

Here in Missouri, they are using trans rights as a wedge issue and to “punish” the big metros throughout, what they consider, a rural state. They do not lead in good faith. Everything is a battle to maintain control now and trans children and adults are the one good target that sticks. Amid all this, an institution in Southern Missouri reached out to the community for support for students who were scared and felt targetted by this malicious legislation. They asked for words of encouragement for these young people, memes, pictures-- whatever we could muster. I made this art for them with rights to display it how they chose. I hope they know that they are loved and valued as people. They are not political pawns. The “Christians” and “it’s for your own good” busybodies in our state who reject their choices are the lowest scum for targeting such an endangered minority. I will not accept their ignorance of the issue as an excuse.

I love you, trans brothers and sisters. I support you. The Holy text proclaims God loves you, too, and gave us all free will so you could choose to live life as you please. Those who call themselves Christians have no right to take away your autonomy in this way. Their lies, derision, and divisiveness is the very sin they claim to hate. The current Republicans would have been the kind who mocked Jesus on the cross.

#pride month #trans rights #missouri laws #christian left #lgbtq #self portrait #condemnation #i love you #god loves you

[4statesnaughty]

Mallorie Larson just met her new sister in law Kirsten Spangler and wow she is a smoke show. Mallorie nevet once thought about being a lesbian but seeing Kirsten changed all that. Mallorie feels Kirsten up when she gets the chance and plays it off as a accident. Finally Kirsten says hey Mallorie come here for a second. Mallorie comes over and sees Kirsten bottomless and a shaved pussy for her.

#missouri hottie #sister in law #joplin hottie #firsttime lesbians

[soupy-sez]

N.W.A., Laylaw from Above The Law, and The D.O.C. before their performance during the "Straight Outta Compton" tour at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri 1989, © Raymond Boyd

#nwa #dr. dre #laylaw #above the law #the d.o.c. #ice cube #eazy-e #mc ren #dj yella #1980s #80s #raymond boyd #b/w #music #hip hop #rap #soupy's #kansas city #missouri #kemper arena

[antifatabi]

Sharia Law

#Sharia Law #right to bare arms #missouri #Blessed be the fruit #womens rights

[patchworkpunk]

i think im going to start expressing my frustration and general upset with politically charged graffiti and protest stickers

#alv posts #just got in a fight with my mom about my transness AGAIN #'theres a reason there are laws against people like you getting those surgeries' #im fucking done with this shit #im an artist #i want to make art for my fellow trans people #art demanding rights #and respect #and BODILY FUCKING AUTONOMY #im an adult and my mother thinks she can start yelling at me over family dinner because she doesnt want me to get transition surgeries #like its any of her fucking business #what i do with my body as an adult #oh and shes fine with me getting a major breast reduction but if i want to go a little slimmer so my chest looks male then suddenly im + #making a horrible choice and mangling my body forever and its a good thing they made that illegal here! #haha yes i love living in missouri #fantastic place we've got here #not like its the home i grew up in or anything thats trying to drive me out or kill me (whichever gets me gone) #anyways. im not standing for this #im gonna get some fucking paint and throw my feelings up on the concrete

[lesbiten]

people who go online and talk about how kill shelters all need to be shut down and how horrible they are...have you ever wondered where those puppies come from

#not to mention a lot of the people who say stuff like that dont foster #shutting down kill shelters would actually make the overpopulation of animals in this country worse #literally go after puppy mills and laws that enfore strict regulationsand permits on breeding #there are not enough people or rescues to save every single unwanted animal that comes out of a mill or byb every year #we need to stop these places from producing more animals in the first place #start at the local level with education as basic as “no #your dog does not 'need to experience being a mom' do not breed her to your neighbors dog“ #and then bomb the entire state of missouri because this place sucks and at this point it feels like the puppy mills will never die #simon says

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

After the NRA’s wildly successful lobbying to turn the Second Amendment into an absolute individual right was emboldened by the Bruen decision, several states have been toeing the line to determine what prohibitions, if any, stand in the way of gun ownership. One of them, Missouri, passed a law that put a chilling effect on state and local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws in Missouri. The Show Me State just got shown that it can’t do that. Not for now, anyway. From Reuters:

“A Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws 'invalid' is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday, handing the U.S. Justice Department a victory in its bid to get the law tossed out.

At issue was a measure Republican Governor Mike Parson signed into law in 2021 that declared that certain federal gun laws infringed on the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in Jefferson City, Missouri, said the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws.”

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution is like the Commerce Clause and the Insurrection Clause in some ways — they are some of the threads that bind together an otherwise mostly independent series of states. And as neat as it is to think of the states as individual laboratories of democracy, there has to be some overlapping and enforceable code of conduct that can separate otherwise good science from a bumbling series of OSHA violations in a lab coat.

“Wimes, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, in a siding with Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration called the practical effects of the Republican-led state’s law ‘counterintuitive to its stated purpose.’

‘While purporting to protect citizens, SAPA exposes citizens to greater harm by interfering with the federal government’s ability to enforce lawfully enacted firearms regulations designed by Congress for the purpose of protecting citizens,’ he wrote.”

It it pretty hard to argue against that — just take a look at this clip that goes into detail about how laws like SAPA would make it harder for the police who aren’t killing unarmed protestors to do domestic abuse calls.

As expected, Missouri has already announced that it will appeal the decision.

“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, in a statement promised an appeal, saying he was committed to ‘defending Missourians’ fundamental right to bear arms.’

‘If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that,’ he said.”

Sure would be nice if some Missouri representatives were more committed to defending Missourians’ fundamental right to live. Missouri has the fourth highest gun death rate in the nation, due at least in part to the vigorous defense of the Second Amendment by representatives like Bailey. As easy as it is to view this as a concrete example of the tension between state rights and federal authority, let’s not forget about the real consequences we have to stomach in the process.

#us politics #news #above the law #2023 #2nd amendment #second amendment #Missouri #gov. mike parson #gun rights #gun control #gun violence #Judge Brian Wimes #Second Amendment Preservation Act #us constitution #Supremacy Clause #Andrew Bailey #tweet #the problem with jon stewart #aj+ #gun deaths #gun death rate

[pleckthaniel]

Went to bed in a Republican hellhole, woke up in a legal recreational cannabis state 😌

#scout talks #now let's see if the lawmakers try to reverse it like they did clean missouri and the union laws #missouri my beloved (derogatory)