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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]
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. From 2022 to 2024, abortions were only legal in cases of medical emergencies, with several additional laws designed to make accessing abortion services difficult.
The passage of Amendment 3 marks the first time that voters have overturned an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest in the current post-Roe v. Wade landscape.
A host of abortion laws remain on the books in Missouri. Some of those laws, such as the abortion ban, are obviously unconstitutional under the amendment. But others exist in a gray zone that will ...
Missouri has banned abortion since moments after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Wade in 2022. The current ban only allows abortion in medical emergencies.
Missouri abortion rights supporters hold a celebratory press conference outside the state Capitol after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot.
Missouri voters approved a ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution, NBC News projects, effectively undoing the state’s near-total abortion ban and delivering a ...
Both sides of the debate over whether to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution have filed last-minute legal challenges hoping to influence how, and if, the proposal goes before voters.