Missouri's Life Battle Isn't Over: Voters Tricked Into 'Unrestricted, Taxpayer-Funded Abortion'?

By Paul Petitte - Posted at CBN News:

Published December 1, 2024

"The voting public only sees 50 words on the ballot," Sparks explained. "After people voted, interviews showed overwhelmingly that most people thought Amendment 3 was about contraception, in vitro fertilization, or ectopic pregnancies. Most had no idea that we were talking about unrestricted, taxpayer-funded abortion."

Voters in seven out of ten abortion-related initiatives on November ballots across the U.S. decided to lift restrictions and enshrine abortion rights, including Missouri's Amendment 3.

Missouri was the first state to ban abortion in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade via its trigger law. Now, the passage of Amendment 3 has reversed that ban, prompting passionate reactions from both sides of the issue.

Brian Westbrook of Coalition Life criticized the measure saying, "Amendment 3 is more extreme than California, Illinois, or New York. It would be the most extreme abortion law on the books in the entire nation."

In less than 24 hours after the votes were counted, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit seeking to declare multiple pro-life laws unconstitutional.

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