It's now up to the Republican secretary of state to check the validity of the abortion-rights campaign's signatures.
Advocates on Friday turned in more than twice the needed number of signatures to put a proposal to legalize abortionon the Missouri ballot this year.
"Our message is simple and clear," ACLU Missouri lawyer and campaign spokesperson Tori Schafer said in a statement."We want to make decisions about our bodies free from political interference."A moderate, Republican-led Missouri campaign earlier this year abandoned an effort for an alternate amendment that would have allowed abortion up to 12 weeks, and after that with only limited exceptions.
It's not clear yet how many states will vote on measures to enshrine abortion access in November. In some, the question is whether amendment supporters can get enough valid signatures. In others, it's up to the legislature. And there's legal wrangling in the process in some states. Signature-gathering efforts by the campaign were delayed in part because of a legal battle with Ashcroft last year over how to word the abortion question if it gets on the ballot.
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