Appeals court rewrites abortion rights repeal ballot measure
The Missouri Court of Appeals found previous ballot language misleading and clarified the amendment would repeal the 2024 reproductive rights measure and restrict abortion and gender-affirming care for minors.
- A Missouri appeals court ordered new wording for a ballot measure seeking to roll back abortion rights, ruling that voters must be told it would repeal reproductive healthcare rights approved in 2024.
- The ballot measure would allow abortions only for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, or cases of rape/incest up to 12 weeks, while also prohibiting gender transition treatments for minors.
- The ACLU's Tori Schafer said it is crucial that Missourians know they are being asked to end the reproductive healthcare protections just passed in the last election.
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Appeals court rewrites Missouri abortion measure ballot language
A Missouri court of appeals rewrote the ballot language for a measure that will give voters another chance to weigh in on abortion rights. The previously approved summary was deemed "insufficient" by appeals court judges.
Missouri appeals court rewrites ballot proposal to clarify a ‘yes’ would end right to abortion
A Missouri appeals court rewrote the language for a proposed abortion ban set to appear on the November 2026 ballot after the judges concluded Thursday the previous wording drafted by Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was riddled with errors.…
Appeals court rewrites abortion rights repeal ballot measure
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals rewrote ballot language Thursday for a measure that seeks to repeal a constitutional amendment that enshrined a right to abortion last fall, finding the language submitted by the state's top election official needed more work. The woman who first brought the lawsuit, Anna Fitz-James, appealed a lower court's decision certifying Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' Amendment 3 langu…
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