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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 amendment narrowly passed. [2]
Wade in 2022, state laws and regulations had effectively thwarted Missouri’s sole abortion provider, a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, from using mifepristone and misoprostol, the two ...
By the end of the 1800s, all states in the Union except Louisiana had therapeutic exceptions in their legislative bans on abortions. [10] In the 19th century, bans by state legislatures on abortion were about protecting the life of the mother given the number of deaths caused by abortions; state governments saw themselves as looking out for the lives of their citizens.
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Missouri’s trigger ban on abortions does not explicitly ban birth control, but some local hospitals are reviewing or changing their prescribing policies in light of the new law.
Bailey listed five state statutes that he said will in-part be “unenforceable” under Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution.
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s move comes ahead of a scheduled state court hearing Wednesday. On eve of trans care restrictions, Missouri AG wants lawsuit moved to federal court Skip ...