Despite pro-life efforts to stop it, an amendment for abortions up to birth will appear on the November ballot in Missouri.
Today the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office announced that a radical abortion amendment will be on the Missouri ballot this fall. The proposed amendment would allow second and third trimester abortions in the state, while destroying commonsense health and safety protections for women, eliminating parental rights, and ensuring the taxpayer funding of abortion.
This process, which began a year ago in March, started with the filing of multiple pro-abortion petitions. Secretary of State Ashcroft wrote truthful ballot language which was challenged by the abortion advocates and ultimately ended with the court using the pro-abortion ACLU language as the deceptive ballot language.
Although pro-life groups engaged in a Decline to Sign Campaign, abortion advocates got enough signatures for the ballot.
Midwestern Regional Director for SBA Pro-Life America Sue Liebel told LifeNews “The abortion lobby’s ballot measure would end thousands of lives. Unborn children who have heartbeats, feel pain, suck their thumbs, smile and even survive outside of the womb will no longer be protected in Missouri if this extreme measure passes. Missouri would become as radical as California in allowing horrific late-term abortions and forcing the taxpayer to fund them.”
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She added:
“Missouri’s all-trimester abortion amendment gives the abortion industry a free pass from operating under any health and safety requirements from the state. With Missouri Planned Parenthood business’ record of breaking the law, women and girls will be at risk if the state’s abortion industry goes unregulated. In the past few years, Missouri Planned Parenthood businesses were caught using moldy abortion equipment, ignoring informed consent laws, disregarding the law for 15 years to report when a woman has a complication, and allegedly being willing to traffick a 13-year-old out of state.”
In 2022, Michigan passed Prop 3, an abortion amendment similar to Missouri’s and those being proposed in red states. In the following legislative session, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill to end the state’s partial birth abortion ban. When the legislature was unable to remove informed consent and guarantee taxpayer-funded abortion, the ACLU brought litigation based on the amendment.
The abortion lobby is targeting seven red states with abortion amendments in 2024. In addition to Missouri, abortion activists are pushing extreme amendments in Arizona, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Arkansas.
