Despite pleas from police and city officials, the sounds of gunfire filled parts of Kansas City, Missouri, in the final hour of 2023 and the early hours of the new year.
Lawmakers have worked overtime to advance legislation that would protect the right to abortion in their state since the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court.
It was tried again – and failed. State Sen. Greg Razor, a homosexual from a Kansas City district, offered the so-called Missouri Non-discrimination Act (MONA) and once again the Missouri General Assembly rejected it.