SB79 directs health benefit plans that offer coverage for FDA-approved “self-administered hormonal contraceptives” to cover no less than an initial three-month supply.

The House passed SB79 on May 15, 2025, by a vote of 147 to 1. We have assigned pluses to the noes because this bill enables health insurers to provide year-round coverage for at-home abortions. Hormonal birth-control drugs, let alone “emergency contraception,” such as the “morning-after” pill (e.g., Plan B), function not only as “contraceptives,” but as abortifacients. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to kill a preborn child. Since the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, Missouri should abolish abortion entirely. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.