Shocked Pikachu face that voting to protect abortion rights while continuing to vote for Republicans will result in no abortion rights for your state.
Faces and leopards.
There is an exception carved out in the amendment for cases in which a health care provider deems an abortion necessary to “protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant person.”
Texan here. Those exceptions don’t do shit.
Yup. No legal definition of what counts as medically necessary or what health of the pregnant person is so no one will do a thing under that of what the nebulous, non legal term means under a theocrat AG.
Those exceptions don’t do shit.
thanks for this. a reminder to scream this nugget of wisdom into the face of every “partial ban” supporter.
No leopards here. The title of the article is deceptive because it implies that the attorney general is acting contrary to the new amendment. Actually that amendment explicitly allows for abortion after viability to be illegal.
Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:
establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid;
remove Missouri’s ban on abortion;
allow regulation of reproductive health care to improve or maintain the health of the patient;
require the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding, and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care;
and allow abortion to be restricted or banned after Fetal Viability except to protect the life or health of the woman?
(That’s the text of the ballot measure. The longer text of the actual amendment is substantially similar. It is available in this pdf.)
The voters approved a ban on abortion after viability. They’re not being surprised by this.
Yep. We approved it because it’s that or continue with a total ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, to be clear. We had some of the strictest laws in the country on abortion, juxtaposed by some of the most lax on gun control.
Oh and we also just banned ranked choice voting, so. This state is weird.
Abortions after viability have generally been illegal since 1992 (Casey), long before Dobbs.
just wait until some nutjob in jefferson city decides it would be a swell idea to redefine ‘viability’ to be six weeks.
SOP for the state government here. I’m surprised we managed keep weed legal here.
I’m assuming too many rich old state legislators who railed on “the evil marijuana” are currently.making bank from financing/owning grow sites and dispensaries to even consider getting rid of legality.
