California’s new law, AB 260, allows anonymous abortion pill prescriptions, threatening Missouri’s pro-life efforts. While groups like Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects push the 2026 Amendment 3, their refusal to criminalize women leaves the state vulnerable. Only bold action can stop this interstate assault.
How California’s Law Threatens Missouri’s Unborn
Imagine a Missouri mother opening her mailbox to find a discreet package from California—abortion pills prescribed anonymously, shipped across state lines like contraband. This scenario isn’t reality yet, but California’s new law, AB 260, signed in September 2025, makes it possible. By turning the U.S. mail into a pipeline for chemical abortions, California undermines Missouri’s hard-won restrictions with chilling efficiency.
While groups like Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects collect donations to push the 2026 Amendment 3, a real ballot measure to ban most abortions, California’s law renders their efforts futile. These self-serving organizations, more focused on profit than progress, oppose the only solution that can stop this interstate assault: criminalizing women who end their unborn children’s lives. Half-measures won’t cut it. To save Missouri’s unborn, we must hold women accountable.
California’s AB 260: A Game-Changer for Abortion Access
California’s AB 260 is a bold escalation in the post-Roe abortion wars. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, it allows doctors to prescribe mifepristone and misoprostol anonymously, shielding them from out-of-state subpoenas or harassment. A Missouri woman can consult a California doctor via telehealth, receive a prescription, and get pills mailed in neutral packaging—untraceable and unstoppable. This law goes beyond shield laws, creating a seamless system that bypasses red-state bans.
Newsom calls it “access for all,” but it’s a direct attack on Missouri’s sovereignty. Imagine a woman in rural Missouri ordering these pills online, sidestepping clinic closures and travel barriers with a few clicks. This scenario, while fictional, illustrates AB 260’s devastating potential. Telehealth abortions already account for 20% of U.S. abortions, and California’s law turbocharges this trend, making Missouri’s restrictions irrelevant.
Why California’s Move Matters
In the post-Roe era, states are locked in a high-stakes battle over abortion. Missouri’s near-total ban, briefly overturned by the 2024 pro-abortion Amendment 3 (which legalized abortion up to fetal viability), relies on shuttering clinics and targeting providers. But AB 260 turns every mailbox into a potential abortion hub, rendering state borders meaningless. California’s law doesn’t just challenge Missouri’s laws—it mocks them, delivering pills faster than lawmakers can draft new bans.
Missouri’s Grifters: Profiting Without Progress
Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects posture as pro-life champions, raising millions to support the 2026 Amendment 3, a legislatively referred measure set for November 3, 2026. This amendment aims to repeal the 2024 pro-choice victory and reinstate a near-total abortion ban, with exceptions for the mother’s life, fatal fetal anomalies, and some rape/incest cases. They fought the 2024 amendment fiercely, rallying supporters with emotional pleas. But beneath the rhetoric lies a grift: these groups thrive on the abortion fight, not its resolution.
Both organizations aggressively lobby against laws that would criminalize women for self-managed abortions. Why? Ending abortion would end their relevance—and their revenue. By keeping the issue alive, they ensure a steady flow of donations, gala tickets, and speaking fees. Their focus on providers—suing Planned Parenthood or protesting clinics—is a deliberate half-measure, designed to perpetuate a lucrative stalemate rather than secure victory.
How California Exploits Their Weakness
The 2026 Amendment 3, while a bold step, is powerless against California’s pill pipeline. Groups like Aid Access have already shipped thousands of abortion pills to Missouri since Roe’s fall, and AB 260 makes enforcement nearly impossible. Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects, by refusing to address demand, leave the state vulnerable. Their provider-focused strategy is like locking the front door while the back window is wide open. California’s law exposes their approach as not just ineffective, but complicit in the ongoing loss of unborn lives.
Why Provider Bans Fail—and Women Must Face Consequences
Targeting providers alone is a losing battle. Abortion pills cost less than $50, are discreet, and cross state lines effortlessly in a digital age. Like speakeasies during Prohibition, they thrive because demand goes unchecked. California’s AB 260 is the modern bootlegger, delivering pills faster than Missouri can legislate. Provider bans are theatrical, not transformative—they can’t stop a woman from ordering pills online.
The only solution is to criminalize women who self-manage abortions. Model legislation should impose felony charges for ending an unborn child’s life, balanced with compassionate options like counseling or adoption support. Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects dodge this approach, fearing it’s too “divisive.” But life begins at conception; ending it is homicide, no matter the excuse. By refusing to confront demand, these grifters ensure the abortion fight remains a cash cow, not a closed case.
Countering the Critics
Some will argue, “Punishing women is too harsh!” But fairness demands accountability. Why penalize doctors while excusing the person who makes the choice? In Texas, strict enforcement, including patient penalties, has slashed abortion rates significantly. Texas’s success shows Missouri could neutralize California’s law by deterring demand. Picture an unborn child lost to a pill mailed from California—a fictional scenario, but one that captures the stakes. We must protect the innocent by holding decision-makers accountable.
A Call to Bypass the Grifters
California’s AB 260 lays bare the futility of Missouri’s grift-driven pro-life establishment. The 2026 Amendment 3, for all its promise, is toothless against a flood of anonymous abortion pills. Missouri Right to Life and MO Protects, obsessed with their own survival, profit while the unborn perish. It’s time for Missourians to act decisively, bypassing these groups to demand laws that criminalize women who end their pregnancies.
