CLAYTON, Mo. — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is among more than 80 elected prosecutors in Democratic-majority jurisdictions across the country who have pledged not to enforce abortion bans.
The prosecutors, largely from 13 states that have banned most abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, issued a joint statement declining to put resources toward the criminalization of "personal medical decisions."
"Not all of us agree on a personal or moral level on the issue of abortion," the joint statement read. "But we stand together in our firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions."
