Missouri and Arizona this week officially joined the six states that have fallen victim to efforts by extremist politicians to enshrine abortion up to birth in their constitutions through proposed constitutional amendments.

A majority of adult Americans oppose Democrats’ plans to legalize abortion during childbirth. But voters in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York and South Dakota, who have no doubt fallen for euphemistic claims of “reproductive rights,” will decide this November whether to permanently legalize abortion during the full nine months in their state.

Republicans in Missouri, in particular, had a chance to thwart the fraudulent efforts of Democrats and abortion activists to smuggle unlimited abortions into the deep-red state by passing legislation that would have strengthened the constitutional amendment process. As Federalist editor Shawn Fleetwood reported in May, Republican senators even had the votes they needed to stop the Democrats’ 50-hour filibuster, but instead decided to adjourn the upper house session.

The state’s Republicans’ deliberate refusal to move on has prevented them from protecting their state and their constituents’ pro-life principles from extremists seeking to expand the influence of the abortion industry following the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Dobbs vs Jackson Verdict.

Abortion is currently banned in Missouri except in medical emergencies, but the amendment introduced by Missourians for Constitutional Freedom and approved Tuesday by the Missouri Secretary of State’s office specifically aims to permanently allow abortion by adding a “right to reproductive freedom” to the state constitution.

The deliberately vague language states that everyone in the state may “make and carry out decisions regarding all matters relating to” so-called “reproductive health care.” However, the fair choice language posted on the Missouri Secretary of State’s website correctly states that the amendment allows “abortion at any point in a pregnancy.”

It also prevents the state from enacting regulations “aimed at protecting women who have an abortion and precluding civil or criminal action against persons who perform an abortion and injure or kill the pregnant woman.”

“The measure takes away the right to sue for medical malpractice and receive compensation for anyone who loses a child or loved one due to negligence during pregnancy, labor or childbirth,” Stephanie Bell, a spokeswoman for Missouri Stands with Women, told the Missouri Independent.

Sue Liebel, Midwest regional director of SBA Pro-Life America, warned that if the amendment passes in Missouri, the state would “become as radical as California in allowing cruel late-term abortions and requiring taxpayers to fund them.”

“Missouri’s change to the all-trial abortion policy gives the abortion industry free rein to avoid complying with the state’s health and safety requirements,” she said in a statement. “Because the Planned Parenthood company has already broken laws in Missouri, women and girls are at risk if the state’s abortion industry is left unregulated.”

In the last few years alone, Liebel said, Missouri Planned Parenthood has been caught “using moldy abortion supplies, ignoring informed consent laws, ignoring the woman’s complications reporting law for 15 years, and allegedly being willing to smuggle a 13-year-old out of the state.”

In Arizona, thanks to a recent certification by the Secretary of State, voters will vote on an amendment that would add what Democrats — including Vice President Kamala Harris and outside abortion groups like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood — have called a “fundamental right to abortion” to the state constitution.

Arizona law currently prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is supported by a majority of Americans. The broad language of the proposed amendment makes the availability of abortion dependent on “viability,” which the amendment does not define and instead leaves to the subjective judgment of a medical professional. The amendment also prevents the state from passing or enforcing laws that punish abortion doctors for killing babies.

“Throughout pregnancy, both before and after fetal viability, the State may not interfere with the good faith judgment of a treating physician that an abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person,” the proposed amendment states. “The State may not penalize anyone for assisting or assisting a pregnant person in exercising her right to an abortion.”

Jordan Boyd is a contributing editor at The Federalist and a producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured on The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan majored in political science and minored in journalism at Baylor University. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.