Missouri’s current law bans abortion with almost no exceptions and this amendment would allow abortion to about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
FILE - Missouri residents and pro-choice advocates react to a speaker during Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom kick-off petition drive, Feb. 6, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (This piece originally appeared as part of NPR's live coverage of the 2024 election. For more election coverage from the NPR Network head toST.
The amendment enshrines abortion rights into the constitution over the objections of the heavily Republican state leadership. Missouri was the first state to ban abortion - even in cases of rape and only with an exception for medical emergencies - after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Then abortion rights proponentsWhile Missouri has become a much more Republican state in the past decade, passage of the amendment wasn’t a surprise.. A campaign committee backing the amendment raised tens of millions of dollars — and signed up thousands of volunteers to knock doors and make phone calls.
Opponents of Amendment 3 contended that it would be better for the legislature to make changes to Missouri’s strict abortion laws. They also argued the lengthy amendment would allow transgender care for minors, which legal experts and proponents contended was a scare tactic misrepresenting what the proposal actually does.
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