A radical organization that facilitates abortions for minors has sued the state of Missouri to fully remove all parental consent laws, stating they blatantly violate the Constitution.

Laws requiring adults to be involved in the lives of pregnant minors “bully pregnant young people without parental support into giving birth and threaten legal action against and undermine the core activities of Good Samaritans who seek to help young people effectuate their own decisions about their pregnancies with dignity,” according to a 59-page legal brief filed in the circuit court of Jackson County, Missouri, by Right By You.

The lawsuit cites Amendment 3, passed last November, which established a woman’s state constitutional “right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives.” Missouri’s amendment also says it allows regulation after viability, with a broad exception for the alleged “health” of the mother. It passed with a bare majority of votes.

“Before Election Day, the abortion lobby insisted Amendment 3 would not take away parents’ rights. Now they’re suing so girls who aren’t old enough to get their ears pierced on their own can have an abortion without their parents,” said Kelsey Pritchard, political communications director for SBA Pro-Life America.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) denounced the lawsuit as “a shameful and dangerous attempt by radicals hell-bent on the destruction of innocent life to undermine not only parental rights but also the health and safety of young women.”

The measure’s vague language mirrored that of an initiative approved by Ohio voters in November 2023, Issue 1. Three weeks after the election, Ohio House Democrats introduced the so-called “Reproductive Care Act” (H.B. 343), which stated that “reproductive health care … means gender affirming care.”

The court’s location in Kansas City, Missouri, seems auspicious, as undercover investigators in December 2023 seemingly caught a local abortion facility aiding and abetting an abortion that could conceal statutory rape from the victim’s parents. Video footage appears to show a woman identified as “Lashauna,” the managing director of a local Planned Parenthood facility, offering to give an adult male a doctor’s excuse he can use to smuggle a 13-year-old girl across state lines to obtain an abortion without her parents’ knowledge or consent. “In Planned Parenthood we consider you [a 13-year-old child] an adult,” the employee says. “You can make the decision, then we got you.” She added, “We never tell the parents anything. She’s an adult in our clinics.”

Pritchard said the lawsuit had a certain kind of merit. “The abortion lobby’s litigation reveals the end goal of pro-abortion ballot measures. Rather than protecting a ‘decision between a woman and her doctor,’ these amendments protect abortion business’ profits at the expense of girls and their parents.”