JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge faces a Tuesday deadline to decide whether to take the rare step of pulling an abortion-rights amendment off
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge faces a Tuesday deadline to decide whether to take the rare step of pulling an abortion-rights amendment off the state’s November ballot.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Mary Catherine Martin on Friday argued that the campaign to restore abortion rights in Missouri drafted an amendment that is intentionally broad in order to trick voters into supporting it. “Out-of-touch politicians and the special interest groups who hold influence over them are making a last-ditch effort to prevent Missourians from exercising their constitutional right to direct democracy,” lawyer Tori Schafer said.
Voters in all seven states that have had abortion questions on their ballots since 2022 have sided with abortion-rights supporters. Loretta Haggard, another lawyer for the abortion-rights campaign, said assuming that the measure would repeal bans on cloning and genital mutilation — which are not mentioned in the amendment — is “extreme speculation.”
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