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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.
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]
Missouri banned almost all abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, which ended a national right to abortion and tossed legal questions around the procedure back to ...
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. Jackson Women's Health Organization was decided in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, abortions were only legal in cases of ...
Wade, Missouri was the very first state to ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest. The amendment—which captured nearly 52 percent of Missourians’ votes—not only lifts the ban on ...
The exceptions in the law were established in April 2023; previously, under a trigger law that went into effect after Dobbs, there were no exceptions to the state's abortion ban, though a doctor charged under the law could assert an affirmative defense that their actions were necessary to save their patient's life. [203]
Missouri voters approved Amendment 3, ending an abortion ban imposed by Republican officials more than two years ago.
When the Missouri House in 2019 debated the bill that became the state’s abortion ban, then-state Rep. Bryan Spencer quickly raised —and praised—the proposal’s lack of exceptions for ...