The following statement is from Susan Klein, Executive Director, Missouri Right to Life:

On Thursday, June 18th, Jackson County Judge Jerri Zhang issued an Order and Judgment invalidating almost all of Missouri’s health and safety regulations, finding that they were unconstitutional under 2024’s pro-abortion Amendment 3.

Judge Zhang had previously issued Temporary Orders striking down most of these same statutes and regulations, however, in addition in this order she struck down a regulation that required abortion clinics to have a complication plan in place to treat a woman’s complications following the administration of the abortion drug. The regulation would have required a plan to be in place to protect a woman who was experiencing complications after taking the abortion pill. 

This is extremely significant in light of a 2025 research study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center that found that 10.93% of women who took the abortion pill experienced serious adverse reactions, including sepsis, infection and hemorrhaging.

This ruling places women in grave danger with no plan in place to treat these serious adverse reactions.

As the judge had done in her prior Temporary Rulings, she found that the 2024 pro-abortion Amendment 3 wiped out a number of abortion statutes and regulations. The ruling;

• Wiped out the requirement that a woman receive informed consent prior to an abortion procedure.

• Struck down licensing requirements for abortion providers and the authority of the state to perform inspections of abortion clinics.

• Struck down requirements that abortion clinics report any complications that mothers experience during an abortion.

• Allows abortion based on a diagnosis of Down Syndrome in an unborn child and allows abortions on unborn children who can feel pain.

This ruling highlights the fact that the 2024 pro-abortion Amendment 3 places women in grave danger and highlights the importance of voting yes on the 2026 Amendment 3 on the November 3 ballot in order to protect women in Missouri.

Link - Listen to Steve Rupp discuss Judge Zhang’s ruling.

On November 3, vote YES on 3.

As a child, nothing can make you feel more loved, more secure and more confident than to have parents who are strong in their faith, strong in their love for their spouse and children and strong in their understanding of their role and mission as parents.

Without a doubt, both parents are important to the family’s health and stability but for unique and separate reasons. In God’s plan, fathers are the head of the family. They provide faith leadership, economic stability, protection, strength, advice and guidance. Now does that mean that families without fathers will fail?

Certainly not, some of the greatest men grew up without fathers. But in a family with only one parent the challenge for the mom is so much greater and the possibility of family crisis more likely.

As many of us know from experience, fathers are not perfect. They bring their own upbringing, their own traumatic experiences, their own problems into the family unit. In other words, they are just human, like all of us. But, hopefully your father did the best job he could do given the challenges we face each day.

Its Father’s Day weekend and if you are lucky enough to have your father or father-figure still with you, spend time with them, have meaningful conversations, hug them and most especially thank them and pray for them.

Happy Father’s Day