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Constitutional law experts and anti-abortion advocates agree the ballot petition campaign could upend decades of laws aimed at limiting abortion access in Missouri. But even if voters approve the amendment, it wouldn't restore access overnight, and would face years of legal challenges.
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Abortion opponents want the Kansas Legislature to increase funding for anti-abortion counseling centers, begin child support at conception and ask more questions of abortion patients.
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Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked the efforts by Republican lawmakers to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
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Citizen groups are rushing to get roughly 171,000 signatures by early May for a ballot item to effectively repeal Missouri’s abortion ban and replace it with language allowing the procedure up to fetal viability. Meanwhile, Missouri Republicans are working to make that initiative process harder.
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The proposed ballot item, pushed by a longtime GOP political operative, would have allowed for abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. But another ballot campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri is already underway.
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As Republican lawmakers voted down amendments aimed at legalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest, one state senator defended the decision, saying, "God does not make mistakes."
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A small band of far-right conservative state senators in Missouri has drawn the ire of even their fellow Republicans. Their goal is to make it even harder to change the state constitution for issues like protecting abortion rights. And they might succeed.
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Abortion rights advocates said cutting funding to Planned Parenthood would be a "devastating blow" to Missouri's public health safety net. The Missouri Supreme Court previously struck down a state budget that would exclude abortion providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
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The address coincided with the release of Parson's proposed $52.7 billion budget, which includes a 3.2% raise for state employees as well as a higher boost for state workers in places like juvenile detention centers and mental health facilities.
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Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, a coalition of statewide abortion rights groups, has until May 5 to gather more than 171,000 signatures to get a constitutional amendment on November’s ballot. The ballot initiative would legalize abortions up to the point of "fetal viability."
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Last week saw significant developments in two deeply divisive areas of Missouri law. What will lawmakers do with legislation limiting transgender rights and health care this year, and will voters enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution?
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The effort to get an abortion rights amendment on the 2024 ballot has the support of the major abortion advocacy groups in the state. But it’s also drawn criticism from activists over its fetal viability standard.