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Missourians voted for a ballot measure enshrining abortion in their constitution. Now, Planned Parenthood is taking action.
From Breitbart. Planned Parenthood is asking a Missouri court to strike down several of the state’s pro-life laws after voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment creating a right to kill unborn babies through abortion.
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The abortion giant filed the lawsuit a day after election day, asking the court to declare several laws unconstitutional, given the passage of Amendment 3, which states that the “government shall not deny or infringe upon a person’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom…” …
The laws on the chopping block are laws:
- Prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother
- Requiring abortionists to give informed consent
- Requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman has an abortion
- Prohibiting unborn babies from being aborted because of race, sex, or risk for Down Syndrome
- Certain licensing and inspection requirements
- Requiring abortions to have certain hospital admitting privileges
- Requiring abortionists to report data related to abortions to the state
- Prohibiting telemedicine abortions
- Preventing health care professionals other than doctors from performing abortions
- Requiring abortionists to maintain plans and agreements for handling complications from abortions …
Missouri will be the first state with a post-Dobbs total abortion restriction to pass an amendment making abortion a constitutional right.
MISSOURI AMENDMENT 3: Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Mary Catherine Martin reacts to the narrow approval of the “Reproductive Freedom” ballot initiative in the Show Me State. READ MORE: https://t.co/verA7iVQtj pic.twitter.com/xfUn7YRwCE
— Thomas More Society (@ThomasMoreSoc) November 6, 2024
Amendment 3, which narrowly passed 51.6 percent to 48. 1 percent, will likely turn Missouri into an abortion hub and undo the state’s abortion restriction, which outlaws abortion except for in medical emergencies or to save a woman’s life.
Amendment 3 will allow abortion until fetal viability, which is generally considered to be around 24 weeks of pregnancy. The amendment also permits abortions after that if “in the good faith judgment of a treating health care professional [an abortion] is needed to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant person.” …
“Nor shall any person assisting a person in exercising their right to reproductive freedom with person’s consent be penalized, prosecuted, or otherwise subjected to adverse action for doing so,” the measure reads. …
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Tessa Rampersad on Unsplash)