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If adopted by Missouri voters on Nov. 5, Amendment 3 would end the state's near-total abortion ban and would cement the right to reproductive freedom in the constitution. Opponents have criticized the ballot language for being too broad — and in some cases have spread misinformation about it.
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Catholic bishops donated roughly $30,000 in Missouri, where an abortion rights amendment is on the ballot. That's just a fraction of the nearly $3.7 million that a Kansas diocese donated two years ago.
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Recent polling by The Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College found that 56% of respondents considered the state’s current abortion ban to be too strict. But opponents of abortion rights argue that Amendment 3, the legalization ballot issue this November, would be too expansive.
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A plurality of Kansas voters say it’s a good thing that the state is a regional abortion access point, according to a survey by the Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center.
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Planned Parenthood leaders say that neither the Missouri legislature's efforts to cut Planned Parenthood off from Medicaid funding, nor next month’s vote on an abortion-rights amendment, were factors in the consolidation.
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Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response.
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A decades-old Missouri law states life begins at conception, which some IVF patients worry puts the procedure at risk. Fertility lawyer Tim Schlesinger said court cases protect the in vitro fertilization, for now.
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Missouri was the first state to enact a near-total ban on abortion. This November, Missouri voters have the chance to reverse it with Amendment 3, which would guarantee the right to an abortion until fetal viability.
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Missouri voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in November. If they do, accessing abortion could be easier in Kansas, health providers say.
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The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision taking Amendment 3 off the ballot, because it did not specify which laws it could repeal. The court ordered that Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft certify to local election officials that the measure will be before voters on Nov. 5.
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The campaign behind the reproductive-rights amendment plans to appeal the decision, and as part of the judge’s stipulations, Amendment 3 will not yet be taken off the ballot
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The amendment violates the Missouri Constitution, the lawsuit argues, because it illegally includes more than one subject.