Government 101. Time for a refresher course concerning Missouri government and our constitution.
In Missouri, there are three ways to amend the constitution: legislative proposals, citizen-led initiative petitions, and a constitutional convention.
The first two require a majority vote to pass. Missouri law mandates the question of holding a constitutional convention every 20 years. This is also authorized only by a vote. Politicians in Jefferson City cannot change our constitution.
In 2024, using the initiative petition process, Missouri passed the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment by a vote of 51.6 percent. To change the constitution, abortion groups outspent their opponents 10 to 1, spending more than $31 million.
Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum that places Amendment 3 on the Nov. 5th ballot. This amendment seeks to repeal the vote from 2024 and ban most abortions, allowing exceptions for medical emergencies, rape and incest.
Immediately after challenges in court to the referendum concluded, Stop the Ban Missouri began sending news releases to media across Missouri.
One of their main arguments is that, “Amendment 3 is the politicians’ attempt to overturn the will of the people and repeal the 2024 voter-approved Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.”
A news release from Aug. 28, promoting events across the state on Saturday, says, “Volunteers from around the state are mobilizing to ensure Missourians know to vote NO on Amendment 3 to stop politicians from overturning the will of the people.”
Obviously they failed Government 101, or — more likely — they believe that by lying to Missouri voters they can build up anger against politicians, to promote a no vote in November.
The only way that the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment can be overturned is by the will of the people. Why is that not okay? The road goes both ways.
On another note, at the end of all the releases by Stop the Ban Missouri, it states that “The No on 3, Stop the Ban Campaign is the coalition of grassroots Missouri organizations and volunteers.”
That is another lie. A grassroots campaign is defined as a movement initiated by ordinary citizens at the local level, aiming to influence political or social issues.
Listed as part of the Stop the Ban Missouri “grassroots” campaign is Abortion Action Missouri, the ACLU of Missouri, Action St. Louis Power Project, Beacon Reproductive Health Network, Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers Action, PROMO, and the Fairness Project.
Combined, these organizations have revenues of millions of dollars and employ hundreds of people.
If you don’t already know by now, I am pro-life. I know that life starts at conception and that all human life is precious and should be protected.
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Two announcements of good news for all Americans
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced a massive oil deal with the South American country of Venezuela that secures majority U.S. control of oil in Venezuela.
Trump said the U.S., “through a partnership with private business,” secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves “at no cost to the American Taxpayer.”
According to energy experts, this deal could reduce gas prices at the pump for all Americans in the future for many years to come.
Phil Flynn, a top energy trader, hailed this deal as a ‘generational win’ for gas prices while being interviewed by Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News.
In other good news, earlier in August, it was announced that deaths linked to fentanyl fell 22 percent during the last year. CDC figures cited by the White House show synthetic opioid deaths, which include fentanyl, fell from 48,913 in 2024 to 38,084 in 2025. That is over 10,000 lives.
A big part of this can be attributed to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal border crossing and its campaign against drug cartels.
