John — Like so many Missourians, I grew up in a pro-life home. But trust me, that’s not where my story ends — let me explain.
My working-class Catholic parents were activists. They protested against poverty, racism, nuclear weapons — and, also, abortion.
Once I got out of the house and finished school at Mizzou, I joined the Marine Corps. Inevitably, I was deployed to our forever wars. Iraq once. Afghanistan twice. When you’re deployed to a war zone in your 20s, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.
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: We can’t ever let this tyranny come to America.
But in recent years, a lot of the same politicians who demanded we keep up our endless wars so we could "protect women and girls" have been engaged in an active campaign to criminalize abortion in our country.
And now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, they’re on the brink of success. In Missouri, they outlawed abortion just minutes after the decision was handed down — there aren’t even exceptions for survivors of rape and incest.
So, I want to be clear about this: This is a Big Brother attack on all of us. And I’m ready to fight back.
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 end the filibuster so we can actually get it done.
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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, their own families, and their own economic opportunities — and freedom is exactly what’s under attack 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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