Just weeks after leaving his post as the FBI's co-deputy director, former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed paperwork to launch his own political action committee backing a proposed abortion ban on the Nov. 3 ballot. Bailey is listed as treasurer of Vote Yes On Amendment 3, one of several groups now campaigning to pass the measure.
Bailey served as Missouri's attorney general from 2023 to 2025 before resigning his elected position to join the FBI, where he served under Director Kash Patel for about a year, according to ABC 17 News. He stepped down from the Trump administration on September 28, 2026, saying he wanted to return to his family in Missouri, a reason he had previously given to NBC News when he announced his departure from the bureau in September.
Amendment 3 would repeal Missouri's 2024 voter-approved reproductive-rights amendment and reinstate a near-total abortion ban, with exceptions for fetal anomalies, medical emergencies, and rape or incest within the first trimester, according to the Missouri Independent. The measure would also enact a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for minors, even though state law already prohibits gender-transition surgery for minors and currently bars them from starting puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones through August 2027.
The Missouri Independent noted the group had already started purchasing broadcast ads as of Friday.
Competing Groups, Competing Money
Bailey's PAC joins a crowded field of groups already campaigning on Amendment 3. Her Health, Her Future PAC — whose treasurer is Missouri first lady Claudia Kehoe, according to ProPublica — is considered the main campaign supporting the amendment, alongside Missouri Right to Life PAC. A new nonprofit, Her Health Her Future Missouri, has poured $2.9 million into that PAC's campaign, the same report notes.```
James Lawson, a campaign adviser for Her Health, Her Future, was on leave from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to serve in that role. On the financial side, the gap between the two campaigns is stark: Stop the Ban, the leading PAC opposing the measure, had raised more than $25.7 million as of last Thursday, according to the Missouri Independent, though a separate Missouri Independent brief put that figure at more than $6.5 million, including a recent $1.25 million donation. Stop the Ban has spent about $5.9 million on television and radio ads, compared with roughly $1.2 million spent by Her Health, Her Future.
Opposition Pushes Back
Stop the Ban Missouri, which also goes by No on 3, has urged Missourians to vote no on Amendment 3, arguing it would overturn the will of voters and ban abortion outright. Spokesperson Tom Bastian said the measure would ban abortion again.
Republican lawmakers placed Amendment 3 on the ballot after Missouri voters narrowly approved abortion rights in 2024, overturning the state's near-total ban and protecting abortion access until fetal viability, according to the Missouri Independent. That 2024 measure passed by a margin of just 51.6% to 48.4% — a shift of about 48,000 voters would have defeated it, per ProPublica. Missouri was the first state to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, and could now become the first state to reverse voter-approved abortion protections if Amendment 3 passes.
The Stakes for Voters
Polling has described the race as close, according to the Missouri Independent. Since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs ruling, state ballot initiatives have become a significant tool for advocates on both sides of the abortion debate, per the KFF, and Missouri is one of four states with abortion-related measures on the ballot this November.
The ballot summary includes assertions about emergency care, women's safety and restrictions on gender transition for minors.
As Amendment 3 heads toward its Nov. 3 vote, Bailey's return to Missouri politics adds another high-profile name — and another PAC — to a campaign already defined by deep spending disparities and a razor-thin electorate.
