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Abortion in Missouri is nominally legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of 2024 Missouri Amendment 3 taking effect on December 6, 2024, 30 days after the November 5, 2024 general election. Although it is legal, legal challenges to allow access are ongoing.
This article originally appeared on Springfield News-Leader: MO judge rules against abortion amendment; November vote in question. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
The presumptive next Missouri House speaker’s comments about changing the amendment that protects abortion rights came after he previously said lawmakers should respect the will of voters.
A 2005 study by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that nationally 1% of women surveyed in 2004 who had an abortion cited rape in their decision ...
A “no” vote will continue the statutory prohibition of abortion in Missouri. When passed, this measure may reduce local taxes while the impact to state taxes is unknown. [16] Notice: The proposed amendment revises Article I of the Constitution by adopting one new Section to be known as Article I, Section 36.
They ask for data for the two most recent years, and they estimate abortion statistics for the missing year by interpolation. [ 1 ] For 2020, the Guttmacher Institute reported 930,160 abortions, an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth.
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