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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.
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.
Wade in 2022, state laws and regulations had effectively thwarted Missouri’s sole abortion provider, a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, from using mifepristone and misoprostol, the two ...
Missouri voters overturned the state’s abortion ban on Tuesday, enshrining a right to reproductive freedom into the state constitution in a historic election that served as a rebuke of ...
(Reuters) -Missouri's top court on Tuesday ruled that a proposed abortion rights amendment to the state constitution will appear on the ballot in November, allowing voters to decide whether to ...
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 ...