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Elise Kelly The work we did in 2023– to build a base of storytellers, collect 15,000 signatures to raise the minimum wage, elect local reproductive freedom champions, and more— was essential to our work this year to get abortion rights on the ballot. During this time, the incredible AAM team has been hard at work, using every tool in our tool box to both mitigate the harm of Missouri’s near total abortion ban, and build the grassroots power necessary to restore meaningful, liberated abortion access for the future. In January 2024, Missourians for Constitutional Freedom launched a campaign to put abortion rights on the ballot and end Missouri’s cruel abortion ban. For three months, Abortion Action Missouri anchored the signature gathering campaign, and after more battles in court, just weeks ago the Missouri Supreme Court spoke definitively: YES on 3 is on the ballot! It has been two years since the US Supreme Court Dobbs decision changed everything, making Missouri the first state in the nation to ban abortion outright. In that time, Abortion Action Missouri and Abortion Action Missouri Foundation have worked tirelessly fighting for Missourians’ fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Over these two years, we have seen Missourians denied access to emergency medical care; rates of maternal mortality are rising in abortion ban states; healthcare providers are fleeing the state; people seeking fertility treatment are scared of criminalization. The list of consequences goes on.
And now, in 45 days, we will END Missouri’s abortion ban. This effort is Missouri-grown and Missouri-led and it is a fight from the ground up. The future of abortion access in Missouri lies in the hands of people-powered movements with deep ties in our community. It lies with YOU ─ with YOU the volunteers, activists, and the funders who make this work possible ─ with YOU, our elected leaders across our state who show up to fight in the toughest of climates ─ with YOU, abortion providers, funders, and connectors, who ensure Missourians have access to compassionate abortion care every day. And with YOU leading this fight, we know
we can end the abortion ban at the ballot box and build the future of Missouri that we deserve.
Executive Director Abortion Action Missouri
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Megan O'Brien is from St. Louis, Missouri. She has been a volunteer with Abortion Action Missouri since 2020, when she got her start clinic escorting and phone banking for Medicaid Expansion. She became the Gala Auction chairwoman in 2022 and has been bombarding your inboxes every summer since.
Megan is especially thrilled to be receiving the Volunteer of the Year Award in the year that abortion is ON THE BALLOT and will be working her butt off over the next several weeks to make sure that Amendment 3 passes in this abortion ban state.
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Elise Kelly is a registered nurse, artist, and activist living in Kansas City, MO. Elise believes healthcare equity is a human right and is motivated to restore abortion access after seeing the suffering of her own clients under Missouri’s abortion ban. Elise began volunteering for AAM in the fall of 2022 and looks
forward to meaningfully expanding abortion access once it is restored.
Brad Adkins-Lilley was from Lincoln County, MO. He began clinic escorting in 2019 and through those experiences became someone members of his social circle would turn to for abortion resources. He was always a staunch advocate
for reproductive rights and was enthusiastically recruiting people to sign the initiative petition for Amendment 3 before his untimely passing earlier this year.
Missouri Jobs with Justice has been fighting for and winning real change for Missouri’s working families for 25 years. They work to build power in workplaces, places of worship, and campuses through action and strong relationships that are rooted in justice, equity, and solidarity. MOJwJ has been and continues to be proud to work with Abortion Action MO and Missourians for Constitutional Freedom on signature gathering and voter education to pass Amendment 3 this November!
We honor these members of the Abortion Action MIssouri and Abortion Action Missouri Foundation Boards of Directors for their longtime service and dedication to the organization and the fight for reproductive freedom.
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