“Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.”
Proverbs 24:11 · NKJV
LW / MO
November 3, 2026
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What a YES vote actually does
“Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: Repeal the 2024 voter-approved Amendment providing reproductive healthcare rights, including abortion through fetal viability; Allow abortions for rape and incest (under twelve-weeks’ gestation), emergencies, and fetal anomalies; Allow legislation regulating abortion; Ensure parental consent for minors’ abortions; Prohibit gender transition procedures for minors?”
Ballot title as certified by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Dec. 4, 2025.
In plain words, a YES vote:
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Repeals the 2024 amendment that made abortion a constitutional right through “fetal viability.”
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Protects unborn children from the beginning of pregnancy, with narrow exceptions for emergencies, fetal anomalies, rape, and incest.
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Guarantees care for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and every medical emergency.
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Requires parental consent before a minor’s abortion.
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Restores the legislature’s authority to regulate abortion and ends taxpayer funding.
It also protects children
Prohibits sex-change surgeries on minors
Prohibits cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors
Exceptions for disorders of sex development
Before you vote
Know what 2024 did to Missouri
51.6
percent. The 2024 amendment passed 1,538,659 to 1,443,022 — about 95,000 votes out of nearly three million.
All
nine months, in effect. Abortion through “fetal viability,” then whenever a provider says a woman’s “mental health” requires it.
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protections struck down. On June 18, 2026, a judge used it to void the 72-hour reflection period, clinic licensing, admitting privileges, and more.
In 2024, abortion was written into our constitution. This November, we can write it back out.
One ballot. One line. Every child.
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It ends abortion on demand.
Today Missouri’s constitution guarantees abortion through “fetal viability,” and after that whenever a provider says a woman’s “mental health” requires it. Yes on 3 repeals that language and protects children from the beginning of pregnancy.
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It puts the people — not one judge — back in charge.
Courts have used the 2024 amendment to strike down protections Missourians spent decades building: the 72-hour reflection period, clinic licensing and inspections, and hospital admitting privileges. Yes on 3 restores your legislature’s authority to protect women’s health and safety.
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It gives parents a voice.
No child should undergo an abortion without a parent’s consent. Yes on 3 writes that guarantee into the constitution itself — where no single ruling can erase it.
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It protects women in a true medical crisis.
The amendment explicitly guarantees care for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and medical emergencies. No doctor will ever have to hesitate to save a mother’s life.
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It ends taxpayer-funded abortion.
Your tax dollars may not pay for abortion except in a medical emergency or a case of rape or incest.
Voting yes is the beginning, not the end
A law can protect a child. Only the Church can welcome one. When Amendment 3 passes, every mother who chooses life will need a church that shows up with diapers, meals, mentors, and a seat at the table. That is what LifeWatch Missouri exists to build.
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble.”
James 1:27 · NKJV
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.”
Psalm 139:13 · NKJV
Straight answers
“But what about…”
The questions people actually ask about Amendment 3, answered without spin. Read every word of the ballot, then decide.
“It has exceptions. Isn’t that a compromise on life?”
Yes on 3 permits abortion in instances of rape or incest before 12 weeks, medical emergencies, and fetal anomalies. We recognize this is not ideal or morally acceptable as the end goal. Currently, no child in the womb is protected. A “No” vote saves none of the children in the exceptions; it abandons every child. Vote Yes, save some lives, then keep working.
“Didn’t voters already decide this in 2024?”
By 51.6 to 48.4 percent. Voters were promised “reproductive freedom” — not told a judge would use it to void clinic inspections and waiting periods. Missourians amend their constitution often. Having seen what 2024 did, we deserve a second look.
“Will women be denied care for a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy?”
No. The amendment’s own text guarantees that care — it was the very first line of the original ballot summary. Fear is not an argument.
“Isn’t the ballot language deceptive?”
The courts settled that. The certified ballot title states plainly that a Yes vote “repeals the 2024 voter-approved Amendment.” Nothing is hidden. Read every word — and vote Yes knowing exactly what it does.
“Should the Church get involved in politics?”
This is not a partisan question. It is the question of who counts as our neighbor. “Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die” (Proverbs 31:8, NKJV). Silence is also a vote.
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