JEFFERSON CITY – The following statement is from Susan Klein, Executive Director, Missouri Right to Life State PAC:
Hours after the election reports came in on November 5th, Planned Parenthood, et. al. filed a lawsuit to repeal healthcare protections for women.
Read more here: Lawsuit challenges Missouri’s abortion restrictions hours after voters approve Amendment 3.
See also: Planned Parenthood Asks Court to Strike Down Every Pro-Life Law in Missouri
Missouri must repeal Amendment 3 to save babies from the cruelty of abortion and protect women from a soon-to-be unregulated abortion industry that will harm women and young girls.
Missouri voters barely approved Amendment 3. It passed by a narrow margin of 1.6%. If only 47,506 more people statewide had opposed it, Amendment 3 would have been defeated. This is less than 292 votes in each of Missouri’s 163 House districts. These numbers are not final as military and overseas votes have not yet been counted.
Amendment 3 was defeated in all but 7 of 114 counties plus two cities. The counties are Jackson, Clay, Buchanan, Platte, Boone, St. Charles and St Louis. The cities are St. Louis and Kansas City.
In order to bring this horrific situation on Missourians, with only a 1.6% margin, the pro-abortion Amendment 3 proponents raised, according to their last report, $30,650,644 and spent $28,040,605. Outspending the prolife side nearly 6:1. This was no mandate on abortion. This was almost 30 Million dollars used to lie to Missouri voters telling them that women could not get medical care in Missouri with our current laws.
In addition to many churches and other religious groups, Missouri Right to Life Political Action Committee was one of three PACs and multiple other public action groups working to defeat Amendment 3. Missouri Right to Life PAC’s digital ads were shown 5.4 million times to voters across Missouri. Utilizing both online video and Connected TV, the campaign resulted in 4.19 million complete video views. We strategically worked with Christian communities – Non-Denominational, Catholic, Assemblies of God, Lutherans, Baptists and other Church denominations.
Our grassroots volunteers knocked on over 34,000 doors, made close to 250,000 phone contacts, and talked to voters in lines at hundreds of polling places statewide for early polling and election day. There were multiple other media markets that Missouri Right to Life PAC utilized.
In the weeks and months ahead, in addition to our legislative efforts, Missouri Right to Life will be working on several programs to help us fight the battle to restore the Right to Life of Missouri’s pre-born children and protect women. These efforts will include identifying unregistered voters with specific educational materials and outreach to enlist their help in future elections, working with churches and church leaders with education and activation, securing more funding for our pro-life work, enlisting more volunteers and starting new chapters throughout Missouri to educate local communities. We will also rely on legal counsel for possible litigation throughout this entire battle.
If you want to volunteer to help us save lives and protect babies and women, please contact us by signing our volunteer form at: https://volunteer.createdequal.org/signup/missouri