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.
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.
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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