Jun 24, 2022

Local pro-life activist organizes rally, speaks out on Roe v Wade ruling

Posted Jun 24, 2022 7:00 PM

By MATT PIKE 

St. Joseph Post 

A small group of supporters came to St. Joseph to celebrate the decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade Friday.  

Rally organizer John Kreipe says while he had a feeling the decision would pass, he wasn't expecting it until right at the deadline on Monday. 

"So, that was a bit of a surprise, I did a bit of scrambling to get here," Kreipe tells KFEQ/ St. Joseph Post. "But this is something that's been really, really long overdue, it was overdue the day that Roe versus Wade was decided back in 1973." 

Kreipe says while he was initially overwhelmed, having to organize an event in three hours, the ruling didn't come as a surprise. 

"We've just been praying in the pro-life movement that the Supreme Court didn't change their mind in response to all the craziness that's been going on," Kreipe explains.  

Kreipe says he was glad to see the ruling held up, and says now what comes next is all up to the states. 

"Fortunately, Missouri is a very strong pro-life state," Kreipe points out. "I believe that Missouri has a law, I could be wrong on this, but I think the law in Missouri is that if Roe was overturned abortion is completely banned in Missouri." 

That bill, known as a 'trigger law', is House Bill 216 which was passed in 2019, effectively banning all abortions once Roe v Wade was overturned.  

Moments after the US Supreme Court's ruling, Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Governor Mike Parson signed the bill banning abortions into law, becoming the first state in the nation to do so.