Missouri voters face abortion and gender transition ballot measure

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 13 Oct, 11:31 · Archive

Missouri will vote on Amendment 3 in November, which would repeal a 2024 constitutional right to abortion and permanently ban gender transition treatments for minors.

Missouri voters will decide on Amendment 3 in November, which would repeal a section of the state constitution added two years ago that protects the right to abortion. The ballot language asks whether to repeal the 2024 amendment providing reproductive healthcare rights including abortion through fetal viability, whilst allowing abortions for rape and incest under 12 weeks' gestation, emergencies and fetal anomalies, and ensuring parental consent for minors' abortions.

If passed, the amendment would also permanently ban gender transition procedures for minors. A 2023 law already bans such treatments, but that law expires in 2027. The amendment would make the ban permanent.

In Jefferson City this week, two mobile health clinics with opposing views parked across from each other. The Pregnancy Help Center of Central Missouri's mobile clinic offers faith-based crisis counselling, free pregnancy tests and free ultrasound scans, according to its representative Stephanie Rademan. The centre, founded in 2021, aims to encourage 'life-affirming decisions' and supports Amendment 3.

Early voting begins 20 October. The language of Amendment 3 may not be final, as lawyers could appeal, potentially taking the matter to the Missouri Supreme Court.

How it is being reported

• Amendment 3: Mobile clinics on opposite sides of street show divide over Missouri abortion measureAs Missouri voters weigh Amendment 3, clinics offer different approaches to reproductive health.KCTV5 · 13 Oct, 11:09
• Mobile clinics offer reproductive health on opposite ends of the spectrum as Missourians once again prepare to vote on abortionA street in Jefferson City showed the divide in Missouri over Amendment 3 this week, with two mobile health clinics with very different philosophies parked across from each other.KY3 · 12 Oct, 23:25

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