Canada Is the Warning. Missouri Is Next Unless We Pass the 2026 Amendment 3.
Missouri is already living under one of the most extreme abortion policies in the country.
That is not rhetoric. That is the direct result of 2024’s Amendment 3, which established abortion on demand in the Missouri Constitution.
Not abortion “up to viability.”
Not abortion with meaningful limits.
Not abortion only in rare or tragic cases.
Abortion on demand. At any time. For any reason. By any person.
That is the legal reality in Missouri today.
The Viability Myth Was the Sales Pitch
During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that Amendment 3 allowed abortion only until “fetal viability.” That phrase was used deliberately because most people reasonably understand viability to mean a child who can survive outside the womb with medical care.
But that is not how Amendment 3 defined it.
Under Amendment 3, viability is defined as a child who can survive without medical intervention. That standard does not exist anywhere in real medicine. A newborn child requires medical intervention. A premature baby requires medical intervention. Even many full-term infants require medical intervention.
In practice, that definition collapses viability into birth itself.
Which means Amendment 3 contains no gestational limit at all.
That is why the correct description is abortion on demand.
Any other description is dishonest.
Canada Shows Us Where This Road Leads
If Missourians want to know what abortion on demand looks like in practice, they should look north to Canada.
As recent reporting has confirmed, late-term abortions are legally available in Canada and are being performed without the strict medical justifications politicians often claim. Clinics are allowed to decide. Doctors are allowed to decide. The law provides no guardrails.
That is exactly what happens when abortion policy is untethered from moral limits and legal boundaries.
And that is exactly the framework Missouri adopted in 2024.
Canada is not an outlier because it has “better safeguards.”
Canada is the inevitable outcome of abortion absolutism.
Missouri Is Already There Legally
Because of Amendment 3, Missouri law now treats abortion as a fundamental right.
The government may not “deny or infringe” on abortion decisions.
The legislature is stripped of its authority.
Courts are empowered to strike down any and all pro-life protections.
Health exceptions are undefined and unlimited.
That is not moderation.
That is not compromise.
That is abortion on demand embedded in the Constitution.
The abortion industry understands this perfectly. That is why they fought so hard for Amendment 3. That is why they oppose every attempt to replace it. That is why they are already challenging commonsense health and safety standards for women.
2026 Is the Last Off-Ramp
The 2026 version of Amendment 3 is Missouri’s chance to correct course.
It repeals the abortion absolutism of 2024.
It restores the ability of the people’s representatives to protect unborn children.
It allows reasonable exceptions while rejecting abortion on demand.
It prevents Missouri from becoming Canada.
This is not about punishing women.
It is about drawing a moral line.
It is about saying that unborn children have value.
It is about refusing to accept a system where late-term abortion is treated as just another medical procedure.
Canada shows us where silence leads.
2024 shows us what happens when language is manipulated.
2026 is our chance to fix it.
Missouri must choose life again.