(November 6, 2024 – St. Louis, Missouri) On November 5, 2024, Missouri voters adopted Amendment 3, the state’s radical “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment. Prior to Election Day, Thomas More Society attorneys challenged the ballot initiative all the way up to the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing the campaign behind Amendment 3 had violated state law during the ballot’s initiative’s petition phase. Following a split decision allowing the ballot initiative to remain on Missouri ballots, Thomas More Society attorneys mobilized to provide public commentary and legal analysis to inform voters about the obscure text of the Amendment and the hidden effects it is likely to have on the state’s legal landscape.‍

Mary Catherine Martin, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, reacted: “Missourians have been tragically deceived by a dazzling misinformation campaign funded by out-of-state millionaires and other mega-corporations that will profit from giving abortions and gender ‘care’ to Missouri women and children. Thomas More Society will not abandon Missouri in this post-Amendment 3 world. We stand ready to help defend the rights of Missouri’s parents, women, children, and babies, against the assaults that are planned by the proponents of Amendment 3.”‍

Mary Elizabeth Coleman, Missouri State Senator and Thomas More Society client, added: “This won't be the last time Missourians vote on so-called ‘reproductive rights,’ which has been co-opted by the Left to include gender-transition surgeries for kids without parental consent, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that vote happens.”

Read background on the Thomas More Society legal challenge to Missouri Amendment 3, Coleman, et al. v. Ashcroft, here.

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