Pregnancy extremism is on Missouri’s vote. Pro-abortion interest organizations are urging the acceptance of Amendment 3, which would enact a constitutional “right” to pregnancy in the Missouri Constitution, following Dobbs ‘ victories in vote elections to enact so-called abortion rights in the provisions of various red says, such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio.
As per usual, proponents of the amendment claim that theirs is their average viewpoint and that if the amendment is not passed, it will result in a total ban on abortion. But in fact, the constitution’s serene and false speech had power Missouri abortion laws to the extreme remaining. This effort has crash.
The ballot initiative asks Missourians if they want to “establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care” ( the inability to use the term “abortion” transparently is suspect ) and if any “governmental interference” is legitimate.
Notice that this language does not include any time limits. Additionally, establishing a basic right to abortion did pressure state courts to suspect that any limitation on abortion, during any stage of pregnancy, is illegal. Familial acceptance rules? Probably unconstitutional. regulations governing parental warning Equal.  ,
The amendment would permit abortion advocates to press adolescents into making life-changing decisions without the assistance of outsiders on that alone. More espionage is possible because of this lack of certification of the “right to reproductive health attention,” which could help baby offenders who coerce their victims into secret abortions from receiving the righteousness that parental notification or acceptance laws assure in such cases.  ,
Additionally, the article forbids the state authorities from “discriminating” in appropriating state money against those “providing or obtaining reproductive health treatment.” Read: State revenue earnings may finance pregnancies. In the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Jefferson remarked that it is immoral and tyrannical to urge a man to contribute money to the propagation of ideas he despises and opposes. Such violations of Missouri’s conscience rights may be mandated and perversely consecrated by passing of Amendment 3.
The amendment’s last provision, which allows abortion to become “restricted or prohibited after the maternal violation except to protect the life or health of the woman,” means that late-term pregnancy can continue to be prohibited in accordance with common can. The opening to an Ozark display cave is narrower than the carveouts for that clause, though.  ,
Initially,” Fetal Viability”, capitalized as a right word in the act as if it had a set explanation, is a moving target. The threshold at which a girl may live outside the womb is typically estimated at 23-24 weeks, or close to the end of the second trimester, or as the general definition of viability. However, clinical developments continue to push this conceptional threshold.
Before the middle of the twentieth century, children born before 24 days of birth had almost no chance of surviving. Research on premature births in the United States, England, and Australia now show that about half of children born in year 24 survive, while about a third survive when born at 23 weeks. Moreover, the baby’s chance of survival outside the womb depends on quality of care and myriad variables. In an NBC News article in 2022, Dr. Rachel Fleishman stated that “viability is not a line. It is not a specific fact, a threshold, or a date on a gestational calendar with precise results.
This raises an obvious problem: If “viability is not a line”, then it is not a judicially discernible question. The decision to determine whether an abortion occurred after that amorphous threshold must then be deferred to medical experts. To whom would courts defer? The abortion providers have a financial and institutional incentive to evade the provision. The exception to the mother’s “health,” which the Supreme Court specifically defined in the now-defunct Roe v. Wade majority opinion to include the mother’s physical and mental health, is also a point.
Including an exception that broad has only one practical purpose: to surreptitiously prohibit any restrictions. In other words, the final section of the amendment was inserted to falsely assure voters that late-term abortion can continue to be broadly prohibited. It is an insult to voters ‘ intelligence.  ,
The unconditional right to a taxpayer-funded abortion has no place in a just society. Making such a false “right” on the assumption that no innocent third party exists is a poor substitute for real kindness and support for mothers and families who deal with unplanned pregnancies.
There is no “right to do wrong”, as Abraham Lincoln said of slavery, at the heart of our fundamental social contract. In 2022, the Supreme Court clarified that the United States Constitution still had to be true. This is the people’s interpretation of Missouri’s Constitution in 2024, according to conservatives across the country.  ,
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia has awarded Nathan Richendollar the 2019 summa cum laude diploma in economics and politics. His work has also appeared in the Daily Caller, Foundation for Economic Education, Live Action, and the American Spectator. He works in the financial sector and resides in Southwest Missouri.