Pro-life groups in states whose voters passed pro-abortion constitutional amendments last November have not folded their tents and gone home. In fact, pushback from several of those states could see the amendments repealed in subsequent elections.
A meeting of these state leaders convened Monday by Priests for Life brought encouraging updates.
In Missouri, for instance, pro-life laws that protected most unborn babies from abortion are back in effect.
These prolife laws were challenged by Planned Parenthood less than 12 hours after Amendment 3 was approved by voters. That amendment allowed for abortion until viability, and even beyond if a mother’s physical or mental health was said to be in jeopardy.
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A county judge responding to Planned Parenthood’s challenge blocked several laws, allowing the nation’s leading abortion seller to crank up its killing machines in Kansas City, St. Louis and Columbia. Since then, however, the Missouri Supreme Court reinstated the laws, so the unborn are safe again in Missouri, pending further legal opinions.
Action taken by the state Legislature this past session also has infused a new sense of optimism in the state. HJR 73 was passed by legislators in January, calling for the repeal of Amendment 3 and allowing abortion only under certain conditions. The amendment will appear on the November 2026 ballot and if passed, would reinstate laws like parental consent, requirements for abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges and for abortion facilities to be regulated the same way as other ambulatory surgical centers.
Meanwhile, in Montana, pro-life groups aligned with the pro-life Montana Family Foundation are challenging the legality of the amendment passed there last November. Legal experts say the amendment, known as CI 128, violates the state constitution because the full text did not appear on the ballot. Only a summary was placed before voters, meaning they were unable to see and study the full language of the amendment before voting on what was a significant change to the state constitution.
Amendment 79 passed in Colorado last November, further loosening restrictions in an already abortion-friendly state. To counter this, Pastors for Life and the Colorado Life Initiative State Task Force are uniting behind a “Right to be Born” amendment and are seeking grants to cover the cost of gathering signatures from two percent of each of Colorado’s 35 senate districts.
In Nevada, voters approved a pro-abortion amendment but, according to state law, it must be passed a second time, in 2026. Nevada Right to Life is leading a coalition of pro-life organizations to fight Question 6 on the 2026 ballot.
Florida was the biggest success story of 2024, defeating an extreme abortion amendment that likely would have led to the repeal of the law currently protecting babies with beating hearts, as well as all the other state laws that protect mothers and their unborn children.
Now Florida legislators have gone a step further, passing HB 1205 – the Petition Reform Law on May 2. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law the same day.
The reform law was prompted by the revelation of the enormous amount of fraud pro-abortion forces engaged in during the signature-gathering phase and beyond.
Among other things, the new law requires that signature gatherers be U.S. citizens and legal Florida residents and to undergo state-mandated training. Both signature gatherers and those who sign the petition now have to provide identifying information like date of birth and driver’s license number. Everyone who signs will be contacted by the supervisor of elections in their county to verify that they have signed the petition and they will be given a chance to remove their signatures. The organization sponsoring the amendment now has just 10 days from the close of the signature-gathering period to submit petitions to the supervisor of elections, down from 30 days. This is an effort to dissuade fraud and keep elections offices from being swamped with petitions closer to the opening of early voting.
A number of other states also have strengthened their laws regarding the petition process. Kansas, Arkansas and Kentucky, for instance, restrict foreign investment in ballot initiatives. According to Peter Northcott from National Right to Life, foreign nationals contributed heavily in efforts to impose a right to abortion in various state constitutions.
All of this is very encouraging to pro-lifers who did not let losses at the ballot box influence their commitment to fighting for the right to life of all Americans, including the unborn. The bottom line is, are the babies being protected? That’s how we measure success and, in that regard, – in so many states, with more to come – we are winning.
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is the national director for Priests for Life.
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