Sen. Bob Onder (R-St. Charles County) serves as Assistant Majority Floor Leader and often touts his credentials as a doctor. His campaign website boasts an “RX for Missouri.” What Missourians have seen of this “prescription” is a lot of noise on persecuting abortion providers, making life harder for union workers and discriminating against LGBTQ+ people. Meanwhile real issues impacting Missourians’ lives go unaddressed by hypocritical state senators, things like: structural racism, lack of access to health care, and gun violence.

Sen. Onder is an allergist.

Missourians are highly allergic to his regressive pro-life politics.

That’s why #ShowMeRJ activists took to Facebook and Twitter on September 7 to ask Onder some questions.

Missourians have been hurt by the misplaced and costly priorities of Bob Onder and his friends on the Senate Interim Committee on the Sanctity of Life. At Reproaction, we’re starting to feel an itch coming on every time we hear somebody recite pro-life talking points about the so-called sanctity of life, while ignoring the crises Missourians face every day.

When activists called Dr. Onder’s practice, they were told the office isn’t involved in his politics.

Sounds nice.

I wish Missourians could opt-out of Dr. Onder’s politics too!

Alas, there aren’t any allergy drugs that cover this; as a queer Missourian with a uterus, that option doesn’t seem to be on the table for me.

Still no word on whether Dr. Onder plans to pursue credentials in obstetrics or gynecology, but I’m not holding my breath. It seems he’s too busy working to restrict and shame Missourians who need abortion care.