Abortion Activists Are Angry That Too Few Babies Have Died

One year after Missouri’s disastrous 2024 Amendment 3, the abortion lobby is upset not because women are being harmed and not because prenatal care is lacking but because “only” about 80 abortions have taken place at Missouri abortion facilities.

Let that sink in.

According to reporting from the Missouri Independent, abortion activists are frustrated that despite embedding abortion into the state constitution, only around 80 babies have been killed in Missouri abortion facilities since the amendment passed. Their complaint is not that abortion is dangerous or tragic. Their complaint is that it is not happening often enough.

That tells you everything you need to know.

A Moral Inversion

For pro lifers, 80 lives spared would be a reason for gratitude. For the abortion industry and its allies, 80 deaths is a failure to scale.

The article frames this number as evidence that Missouri still has insufficient access. But what they are really saying is that the system is not efficiently ending enough human lives. The tragedy in their telling is not that children are alive. It is that they are still alive.

This is the moral inversion at the heart of the abortion movement.

Access Was Always the Goal

Supporters of 2024 Amendment 3 promised voters that it was about freedom, privacy, and medical decisions. But now, with the amendment in place, their own frustration reveals the truth. The goal was always more abortions.

When abortion does not happen, they see a problem to be solved. When abortion does happen, they call it healthcare. And when fewer abortions occur than expected, they demand more facilities, fewer safeguards, and fewer limits.

This is not about compassion. It is about throughput.

Real People, Real Lives

Every one of those “only 80” represents a real human life. A child with DNA distinct from his or her mother. A child with a heartbeat. A child with a future that was cut short.

The abortion lobby talks in abstractions and statistics because it must. It cannot afford to talk about babies as babies. It cannot afford to admit that a lower number of abortions is actually a moral good.

So instead, it reframes survival as injustice.

Why 2026 Matters

The frustration now being voiced by abortion activists is exactly why Missouri needs the 2026 Amendment 3. Last year’s amendment removed meaningful protections and opened the door to abortion on demand. What they want next is full normalization. More abortion facilities. More procedures. Fewer limits. And ultimately more dead children.

The 2026 amendment gives Missouri the chance to reverse course. It restores the legislature’s ability to protect life, to regulate the abortion industry, and to reject the cold calculus that measures success by body count.

If the abortion movement is angry that only 80 babies have died, that should outrage every Missourian.

And it should steel our resolve.

Missouri can and must choose life again.