Most pro-abortion doctors recycling debunked claims in support of Missouri’s Amendment 3 aren’t OB/GYNs

Missouri’s current law restricting abortion allows medical exceptions, contrary to the pro-abortion claims signed by over 800 Missouri medical professionals, the vast majority of whom are not OB/GYNs.

The signatures were part of an endorsement of pro-abortion Amendment 3, which includes false claims that the state’s pro-life law is forcing Missourians “to continue life-threatening pregnancies” and that “[d]octors can’t treat patients with heartbreaking pregnancy complications until they are on the brink of death,” for fear of being jailed.

The statement’s misrepresentations were echoed in a recent op-ed at the Kansas City Star by Dr. Erin Lockard, who complained “our state’s abortion ban has been getting in the way of our ability to do our jobs.”

The problem is that Lockard is a geriatric specialist – and not likely saving women from life-threatening pregnancies at all. In fact, only approximately 90 of the hundreds of medical professionals who have signed the endorsement of Amendment 3 – on the Nov. 5 ballot – actually serve in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN). 

Missouri’s ballot initiative, dubbed the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative,” would allow abortion at any time during pregnancy and for any reason. 

The amendment states: 

“The Government shall not deny or infringe upon a person’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which is the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions.” 

Missouri’s “Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act” clearly provides for cases of “medical emergency”: 

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no abortion shall be performed or induced upon a woman, except in cases of medical emergency.  Any person who knowingly performs or induces an abortion of an unborn child in violation of this subsection shall be guilty of a class B felony, as well as subject to suspension or revocation of his or her professional license by his or her professional licensing board.  A woman upon whom an abortion is performed or induced in violation of this subsection shall not be prosecuted for a conspiracy to violate the provisions of this subsection.” 

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has repeated the same already debunked claims repeated by the pro-abortion Missouri doctors. 

In September, Harris posted to her X account that both former President Donald Trump and Georgia’s pro-life law are to blame for the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, women who died after taking abortion drugs to end their pregnancies. 

“Women are bleeding out in parking lots, turned away from emergency rooms, losing their ability to ever have children again,” Harris wrote, continuing that “[s]urvivors of rape and incest are being told they cannot make decisions about what happens next to their bodies. And now women are dying. These are the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions.” 

Pro-abortion media are also complicit in spreading false claims about state pro-life laws. 

Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs (AAPLOG), responded on X to the statements by Harris and her surrogates in the media that their pro-abortion narrative amounted to spreading “dangerous lies” and using the deaths of two women to promote abortion rights and their political agenda. 

Francis said she agrees the deaths of both Thurman and Miller were “100% preventable,” but added, “their deaths were not the fault of Georgia’s abortion law”: 

“No pro-life law in the country prevents OB/GYNs like me from intervening when a woman is facing a potentially life-threatening complication of her pregnancy. They do not have to be knocking on death’s door before we can intervene. In fact, I can speak from experience, as I practice in Indiana, which has a very similar law. Madam Vice President: Stop lying to my patients! Your lies are harming women and they’re harming physicians! 

In a follow-up post on X, Francis again condemned the claim that “state abortion laws are killing women.” 

Georgia’s pro-life law, the OB/GYN explained, not only provides protection for women and children, but also is clear that physicians can provide care for women who face possibly life-threatening complications in their pregnancy or a chronic medical condition that may pose a serious threat to their life or physical health. 

Francis said that Miller died after she “avoided going to see the doctor with these complications because she had heard the lies about Georgia’s abortion law,” i.e., that she might be denied care or even prosecuted. 

“There’s not a single state law in this country that prosecutes women who have had abortions,” Francis asserted, “and there’s not a single state law in the entire country that prevents doctors like me from intervening to manage complications, especially complications that we see routinely after women take abortion drugs.”  

“It’s time for these lies to stop. Stop putting a political agenda ahead of women’s health!”