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Missouri voters approved Amendment 3, ending an abortion ban imposed by Republican officials more than two years ago.
A Missouri judge on Friday temporarily struck down several laws that Planned Parenthood clinics have said made access to abortion all but impossible across the state. Among the laws Jackson County ...
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 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 ...
Planned Parenthood affiliates that operate in Missouri sued the day after the election to invalidate the state’s abortion ban and several laws that regulate the care. That lawsuit is still pending. Allowing restrictions on abortions after viability was a sticking point for some abortion rights supporters in Missouri.
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.
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.
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 ...