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SB1220 • 2026

Creates new provisions relating to criminal offenses

Creates new provisions relating to criminal offenses

Abortion Crime
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Brattin, Rick; House handler: N/A
Last action
2026-01-27
Official status
Second Read and Referred S Families, Seniors and Health Committee
Effective date
2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Creates new provisions relating to criminal offenses

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1220 - This act creates the offense of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud if a person knowingly and intentionally engages in the use of an abortion-inducing drug on a pregnant woman without her knowledge or consent with the intent to cause an abortion.

What This Bill Does

  • The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1220 - This act creates the offense of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud if a person knowingly and intentionally engages in the use of an abortion-inducing drug on a pregnant woman without her knowledge or consent with the intent to cause an abortion.
  • The offense is a class B felony.
  • This act is identical to a provision in HB 1367 (2025).
  • SARAH HASKINS

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-27 S239

    Second Read and Referred S Families, Seniors and Health Committee

  2. 2026-01-07 S71

    S First Read

  3. 2025-12-01 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Prefiled

Official Summary Text

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Introduced

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SB 1220 - This act creates the offense of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud if a person knowingly and intentionally engages in the use of an abortion-inducing drug on a pregnant woman without her knowledge or consent with the intent to cause an abortion. The offense is a class B felony.

This act is identical to a provision in HB 1367 (2025).
SARAH HASKINS

Current Bill Text

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1220
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BRATTIN.
4900S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapter 579, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to criminal offenses,
with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 579, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1
one new section, to be known as section 579.018, to read as 2
follows:3
579.018. 1. A person commits the offense of coerced 1
criminal abortion by means of fraud if the person knowingly 2
and intentionally engages in the use of an abortion-inducing 3
drug on a pregnant woman without her knowledge or consent 4
with the intent to cause an abortion. 5
2. The offense of coerced criminal abortion by means 6
of fraud is a class B felony. 7
3. A prosecution of a person under this section shall 8
not be a defense against a prosecution under any other 9
provision of law, including murder, if the person commits 10
the offense of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud 11
and the use of an abortion-inducing drug results in the 12
death or serious bodily injury of the pregnant woman. 13
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