Missouri has once again voted in favor of a constitutional amendment enshrining abortion “rights” in the formerly pro-life state’s constitution. The amendment first passed narrowly in 2024.
Republican lawmakers provided Missouri on Tuesday with an opportunity not only to undo the 2024 constitutional amendment and restore the state’s previous near-total abortion ban but to prohibit sex-rejection mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers to minors.
‘We won’t go back.’
Missouri state Rep. Ed Lewis, the Republican who introduced the amendment that ultimately made its way to the ballot in 2026, told the Columbia Missourian, “We just think that, obviously, transition surgeries should not be allowed, that abortion through the second and third trimesters is barbaric, that it’s a human life.”
Planned Parenthood, which is not only a champion of abortion but
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