"Thousands of demonstrators in Missouri march in protest of a state decision that would effectively halt abortions during a rally in St. Louis, Missouri, May 30, 2019.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images An appeals court in Missouri has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state."
"That initiative, now known as Article I Section 36 of the state constitution, recognizes abortion rights up to the point of fetal viability, and allows abortion after that point if it's to protect the life or health of a pregnant person. After that vote, Missouri state GOP lawmakers immediately began considering ways in which they could still restrict abortion. Republicans eventually advanced their own anti-abortion initiative measure in May through the state legislature, known as HJR 73, which will appear on the ballot in 2026."
An appeals court ordered rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure that seeks to undo Missouri's 2024 constitutional amendment expanding abortion rights. The order came from a three-judge panel in Missouri's Western District of Appeals and marked the second determination in months that the ballot explanation was confusing or deceptive. Missouri implemented a trigger law after the 2022 Dobbs ruling that had banned abortion. Voters approved Article I Section 36 in 2024, protecting abortion up to fetal viability and allowing later abortions to protect life or health. Republicans advanced HJR 73 through the legislature for the 2026 ballot.
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