Missouri voters reject Amendment 3
Politics · First reported 4 Nov, 04:25 · Updated 04:52
The proposal would have restricted abortion and barred gender-affirming care for minors. Its defeat leaves Missouri’s current abortion law in place, according to NPR, and rejects an effort to add the restrictions to the state constitution.
- Missouri voters defeated Amendment 3, a proposal that would have banned most abortions and added a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
- NPR reports the defeat keeps abortion legal until fetal viability under Missouri’s current law; the proposal included exceptions for rape and incest through 12 weeks and for certain fetal anomalies.
- The proposal’s defeat also rejects adding a constitutional ban on treatments for minors that were already restricted by state law; the articles describe differing timelines for when some existing restrictions expire.
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- Amendment 3 would have restricted abortion and barred gender-affirming care for minors in the state constitution.
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- Amendment 3 received 44 percent of the vote, according to Mother Jones.
- Current abortion law
- NPR says abortion remains legal until fetal viability, with restrictions on how it is performed.
- Campaign donations
- NPR reports more than $26 million in large donations for opponents of the proposal and around $6.7 million for supporters.
- Amendment 6
- Mother Jones reported that Amendment 6 was on track to pass with 60 percent of the vote late Tuesday night.
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