When Hospitals Hide the Truth: What the Dignity Health Scandal Teaches Us About Amendment 3
When someone dies in a hospital, their family deserves honesty and respect.
In California, some families got neither.
Recent lawsuits against Dignity Health hospitals revealed that families were told their loved ones had “checked out,” when in fact they had died — and their bodies were kept in storage for months or even years. The hospitals didn’t call the families. Death certificates weren’t filed. Bodies piled up in off-site morgues while the state looked away.
That’s not just bad policy. It’s moral failure.
A System That Stopped Caring
State investigators found dozens of bodies left in cold storage, many with no documentation. In one case, a young woman’s family searched for her for nearly a year — not knowing her body was sitting in a warehouse.
The reason? Dignity Health’s contract said the hospital only had to pay for the first sixty days of storage. After that, keeping the body there was free. So the longer they waited, the cheaper it was.
When truth stops being a priority, people stop being people.
The Same Culture That Hides Death Will Hide the Truth About Life
What happened in those hospitals isn’t that different from what happens in the abortion industry. Both rely on silence and deception to keep operating.
If a hospital can lie to a family about death, it can lie to a mother about life. The same mindset that lets a body sit forgotten in a freezer will call a living baby “just tissue.”
That’s why Amendment 3 matters. It makes truth a legal requirement in Missouri medicine.
Why “Medically Accurate Information” Is So Important
Amendment 3 simply says: doctors have to tell the truth.
Women deserve real, complete, and medically accurate information about their bodies, their babies, and their choices.
Without that rule, bureaucrats can twist the term “medically accurate” to fit an agenda. They can decide what’s “acceptable to say” based on politics, not science. That’s how truth gets lost — slowly, behind closed doors.
Amendment 3 stops that. It says the facts belong to the people, not to the politicians.
Restoring Dignity to Medicine
There’s real irony in the name Dignity Health. What those hospitals did robbed families of dignity and trust.
Amendment 3 restores both.
It makes sure Missouri hospitals tell the truth — about life, death, and everything in between.
It protects families from being misled, and it honors the value of every human being, born and unborn.
Missouri Can Do Better
California called those hospitals “back in compliance.”
Missouri should call it what it is — a warning sign.
We don’t want that kind of system here. We want a state where doctors tell the truth, where families get answers, and where every person is treated with dignity from start to finish.
That’s what Amendment 3 is about: truth, life, and accountability.
MO Protects Needs YOU to Pass Amendment 3
The same system that hid bodies in California is the one pushing unlimited abortion and secrecy in Missouri clinics. They’ll lie about fetal development, downplay risks, and silence doctors who dare speak truth—just like they silenced grieving families.
We can’t let that happen here.
Amendment 3 is our firewall. It locks in medically accurate information, protects parental rights, and ensures Missouri never becomes California.
But we’re up against national abortion giants, ACLU lawsuits, and dark money flooding our state to confuse voters.
We need your help—right now.
Donate today: Every dollar defends truth, dignity, and life in Missouri.
Missouri families are counting on you. Will you stand with us?
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