Abortion

The 4-3 ruling kept what’s known as Amendment 3 on the Nov. 5 ballot allowing Missourians to vote on whether to legalize abortion.

A decades-old Missouri law states life begins at conception, which some IVF patients worry puts the procedure at risk. Fertility lawyer Tim Schlesinger said court cases protect the in vitro fertilization, for now.

The Missouri senator rallied against Amendment 3 at an event held by the First Baptist Church in Ozark.

The director of one of the campaign’s biggest donors said it’s impossible to ‘achieve anything without a campaign that is grounded in grassroots support and the support of Missouri voters.’

Missouri Supreme Court judges overturned Cole County Judge Christopher Limbaugh’s decision to remove the proposed constitutional amendment from the Nov. 5 ballot.

A circuit court ruling Friday put a constitutional amendment that would repeal the state’s abortion ban at risk of not being on the November ballot.

The state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case Tuesday, but on Monday, Ashcroft decided to decertify the ballot amendment based on a lower court ruling Friday.

The Missouri Supreme Court will have to issue a decision by Tuesday, the final day that a measure can be removed from the Nov. 5 ballot.

The campaign behind the reproductive-rights amendment plans to appeal the decision, and as part of the judge’s stipulations, Amendment 3 will not yet be taken off the ballot

For the second time, a Missouri judge has accused Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft of crafting ‘inaccurate’ language around the reproductive rights amendment.