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Missouri voters approved Amendment 3, ending an abortion ban imposed by Republican officials more than two years ago.
The fate of an abortion rights amendment in Missouri will be in the hands of the state supreme court Tuesday, after a judge ruled late Friday that the amendment violated state law. The ruling from ...
2024 Missouri Constitutional Amendment 3, also known as the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, was a constitutional amendment that appeared on the ballot on November 5, 2024. The initiative amended the Constitution of Missouri to legalize abortion in Missouri until fetal viability. [1]
The state has restricted abortion for much of its history – abortion was illegal in the state when the U.S. Supreme Court released Roe v. Wade in 1973 and it was again illegal as soon as the ...
Performing an illegal abortion is a Class C felony, with imprisonment of 5 to 10 years, and fines of $1,000 to $10,000. [86] The ACLU announced plans to sue the state in court, claiming that the state constitution implicitly recognizes abortion as a legal right.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2017, there were 4,710 abortions in Missouri. There was an eight percent decline in the abortion rate in Missouri between 2014 and 2017, from 4.4 to 4.0 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Missouri was the first state to enforce its abortion ban after Dobbs v.
Missouri voters will decide on Nov. 5 whether to overturn the state’s abortion ban after the state Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared away a final effort by anti-abortion activists to block a vote ...
Missouri almost immediately enacted a near-total ban on abortions in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortions were only allowed in the state for medical emergencies.