The ballot language explicitly states that the legislature
Posted on: September 10, 2024 at 15:11:36 CT
TigerJackSwartz
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regulate abortion after fetal viability, which under any interpretation is well before birth:
A "yes" vote supports amending the Missouri Constitution to provide the right for reproductive freedom, which is defined as "the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions," and providing that the state legislature may enact laws that regulate abortion after fetal viability, which is defined in the initiative as "in the good faith judgment of a treating health care professional and based on the particular facts of the case, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures."
Edited by TigerJackSwartz at 15:13:43 on 09/10/24