The Lawsuit that Proves Missouri Needs Amendment 3
Next November, Missouri will vote on Amendment 3, enshrining health and safety protections in our state constitution.
Missouri voters approved a Constitutional Amendment in 2024 guaranteeing a right to “reproductive freedom.”
At the time, many voters were concerned about its confusing, court-imposed ballot title and summary.
Thanks to a lawsuit, we no longer have to wonder what the abortion industry thinks it means.
Immediately following the passage of the “reproductive freedom” amendment in 2024, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU sued the state of Missouri to invalidate all health and safety laws regulating the abortion industry.
They want to strike down building codes.
They want to eliminate hospital admitting requirements (in a state where ambulances were called to abortion clinics once every 46 days before Dobbs).
They want the ability to deliver abortions through telemedicine.
This, while Planned Parenthood faces a separate lawsuit for lying about the Chemical Abortion Pill.
The ACLU suit seeks even to strike down the requirement that a licensed physician perform abortions.
Their vision is a world in which their abortion clinics are subject to no regulations.
This is a world where your minor child can be prescribed a dangerous chemical abortion pill by a nurse over Zoom, without your notice or consent.
Those aren’t Missouri values.
Amendment 3 makes clear that the state of Missouri has a right and a responsibility to protect the health and safety of its citizens.
Missouri voters should vote YES on Amendment 3 in 2026.
Andy Bakker
Executive Director
Liberty Alliance USA