Missouri Voters Pass Measure to Protect Abortion Rights and End Ban
www.nytimes.com
A ballot amendment enshrining reproductive rights in the State Constitution would void one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.

Summary

Missouri voters have passed a ballot amendment enshrining reproductive rights in the State Constitution, marking a stunning repudiation of one of the nation’s strictest bans on abortion.

The amendment guarantees a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” including decisions on abortion, and allows the state to restrict abortion only after fetal viability, except in cases affecting the mother’s health.

Missouri, the first state to enact a ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is now also the first to reverse such a ban through a citizen-initiated measure.

Abortion rights advocates gathered record-breaking signatures, revealing broad support despite strong conservative opposition.

  • Neuromancer
    15•1 day ago

    Missouri is my home state. I am glad this passed. Everyone should have the right to make their own decisions about their body.

    Also, minimum wage increases seemed to have passed as well.

    • @lohky
      27•1 day ago

      None of it matters because they voted for it to be annihilated at a federal level.

    • @seth
      10•1 day ago

      They also voted against the possibility of ranked choice voting.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•23 hours ago

        Not even just ranked choice. It’s all alternative voting systems that aren’t just first past the post… 😮‍💨

      • Neuromancer
        -3•1 day ago

        I have less of an issue with that. The other two issues were more important to me. You can’t win them all

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 day ago

          Ranked choice is how you get to vote for a candidate that actually consistently has policies you agree with without being the same as not voting.