Missouri GOP proposes 'eHarmony for babies' to track pregnant women

[RandySF]

Missouri state Rep. Phil Amato (R-Arnold) has introduced House Bill 807, a bill that would establish a database to track pregnant women who may be “at risk for seeking an abortion.”

Amato introduced the bill last month, and it was referred to the Committee on Children and Families last week. Amato and Gerard Harms, an adoption attorney who wrote the bill, testified in front of the committee on Tuesday, where Harms said the bill would establish an “eHarmony for babies,” referencing the dating website.

“We’re looking at something like eHarmony for babies — mothers who want to put up their children need to match with prospective parents,” Harms told the committee Tuesday. “That’s exactly what the intent of this is. Against, inartfully drafted.”

In addition to a database, the bill would establish the division of maternal and child resources, a new branch of the state Department of Social Services. According to the bill’s text, the new division would work to prevent mothers who are “at risk of seeking an abortion,” including instruction to “maintain a central registry of each expectant mother” and “coordinate community resources and provide assistance” to promote adoption.




https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/02/19/missouri-gop-proposes-eharmony-for-babies-to-track-pregnant-women/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. For a Missouri citizen, this is overreach to the extreme. How are they going to track every single female that's

is pregnant in the state of MO, 100% of the time? What are they going to do, put trackers on cars if their families go on vacation outside the state of MO? Are they going to put ankle bracelets on every pregnant female in MO? What happens when a family visits MO (as a lot of them do, when they visit Branson MO etc., will they slap a monitor on each one of the visitors that are pregnant)?

[DET]

2. Probably

All of the above.

[Rebl2]

3. This is

absolutely SICKENING.

[58Sunliner]

4. Forced birthers. It isn't eHarmony, it's slavery. And human trafficking.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Wonder who they will consider to be "high risk"

For seeking abortions?

[sakabatou]

6. Nothing like looking back on the "runaway slave" laws and thinking

"If I tweak them, people accept it!"

[pansypoo53219]

7. forget east germany, why does it feel like romania?

[DFW]

8. I have an idea which Missouri women can propose for a law

A mandatory monitor for Republican men past puberty. When increased hormone levels increase to a point where there is danger of ejaculation, the MMP (Missouri Moral Police) send their rapid response team to make sure that either the male person is doing it solo, or else with a woman who has previously signed and notarized a binding document (present at all times) agreeing to bring any resulting pregnancy to term.

Exceptions are only to be granted in cases where the woman involved is married to a male member of the MMP rapid response team.