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Written by on October 18, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution has raised close to 22 million dollars. Campaign reports filed Tuesday show Missourians for Constitutional Freedom brought in more than 14 million between July and the end of September. Missouri Right to Life has spent more than 637,000 dollars in opposition. The proposed constitutional amendment would allow abortion until an unborn baby is viable outside the womb — about six months into pregnancy. Missouri enacted a near-total abortion ban in 2022.
A Mississippi judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a potential conflict between a 2022 state law that bans most abortions and a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling that said abortion is guaranteed in the Mississippi Constitution. Hinds County Judge Crystal Martin has decided that the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists lacks legal standing. The group sued the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure in November 2022. Martin says the doctors have not shown they face disciplinary action from the board.
Three states are asking a judge to let them try a new approach with a lawsuit to force the federal government to reduce access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The request from Idaho, Kansas and Missouri comes months after the Supreme Court refused to undo the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the pill. The court found that the pro-life plaintiffs did not have the right to sue. The states contend that they do have standing. They are seeking to roll back relaxed regulations rather than press for the approval to be revoked entirely.
Voters in nine states are deciding next month whether to enshrine abortion in their constitutions. But even if those measures pass, pro-life advocates still have some options. In some states, such as Missouri, abortion advocates will have to ask judges to toss abortion restrictions one-by-one. That presents an opportunity for pro-lifers to make their case in court. Meanwhile, abortion amendments in states such as Colorado and Maryland would enshrine current limits rather than expand them. Nebraska has competing pro-life and pro-abortion measures on its ballot.
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