[1]Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

Hey John,

I’m gonna share something with you that you might not hear from a lot of
Democrats nowadays — but I think it’s important. Let me start it here:
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a pro-life home.

My working-class Catholic parents were activists. They protested against
poverty, racism, nuclear weapons — and, also, abortion. But trust me,
that’s not where this story ends — let me explain.

Once I got out of the house and finished school at Mizzou, I joined the
Marine Corps. Inevitably, I was deployed to our pointless forever wars in
both Iraq and Afghanistan. And when you’re deployed to a war zone in your
20s, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you. Well, here’s
something I learned:

On my deployments, I saw with my own eyes what it was like for women in
countries where abortion is outlawed. I saw the impact it had on their
health, on their freedom and opportunity, and on their economic liberty. I
saw how people in power used it to control people’s lives.

And I knew then and there that that kind of tyranny can never return to
any state in America.

In recent years, I’ve seen our politicians demand we stay in countries
like Iraq and Afghanstian to “defend women and girls” — and today many of
those same people want to make abortion in our country a crime. That’s
even despite the fact that 1 in 4 American women have had an abortion.

And now, with the Supreme Court expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion
access will be upended nationwide. So, I want to be clear about this: We
must fix this — and we need to support the organizations doing that work
right now.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re ready to stand up to the political elites obsessed with
controlling people’s lives and help protect the right to abortion here in
Missouri, please add a $10 donation to Pro-Choice Missouri
right now.

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In Missouri, we already have laws on the books that will likely close our
state’s final abortion clinic, cutting millions of Missouri families off
from abortion. It will be a crime to get an abortion, even in cases of
rape and incest.

And we’re sadly not alone — at least two dozen states are likely to follow
Missouri’s lead. But despite this immediate threat, and the fact that
majorities in both bodies of Congress support at least some protections
for abortion access, the Senate is at a stand-still. Continued support for
the filibuster by senators like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema make action
impossible.

In this campaign, I’m running to fundamentally change who has power in our
country — and that includes empowering everyday people to have control
over their lives and bodies.

That’s why in the U.S. Senate, I’ll do more than just fight to codify
protections for abortion access and to make the full spectrum of
reproductive healthcare available to all who need it — I’ll vote to kill
the filibuster so we can actually get it done.

[ [link removed] ]In the meantime, while the future of abortion hangs in the balance,
please consider adding a donation of any amount to Pro-Choice Missouri.
While a handful of corrupt politicians make action to protect abortion
impossible, organizations like these are critical in the fight to protect
this right for every American.

Add a donation now

Many of you who grew up in pro-life families, like me, have already grown
to understand how important this fundamental right to reproductive
healthcare is. But if you’re not with us yet, all I ask is that you
consider the freedoms that veterans like me risked our lives to protect.

America isn’t free if its citizens can’t make decisions about their own
bodies and their own families — and freedom is exactly what’s at stake
here.

It’s a value I fought to protect as a U.S. Marine and it’s a fundamental
right I’ll always defend in the U.S. Senate. That’s my promise to you.

Thanks for hearing me out,

Lucas Kunce


 


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