Despite a variety of Republican blockades, a majority of Missouri voters want the state’s abortion ban overturned. In Tuesday’s general election, roughly 52% of voters supported Amendment 3.
The ballot measure restores many rights to get an abortion up to the point in a pregnancy when the fetus is likely to survive outside of the uterus. It gives state lawmakers some say in regulating abortion after fetal survivability, which is around six months. There would be exceptions for the life, mental and physical health of the mother regardless of fetal survivability.
Chimene Schwach volunteered to gather signatures to get the proposal on the ballot.
“I’m hoping that next week, when somebody, some woman, shows up at an emergency room and she’s having a miscarriage, that they don’t turn her away and they actually give her care. I am hoping that somebody doesn’t die, some woman doesn’t die next week, because doctors feel like they can provide medical care to women when they need it,” she told Missourinet.
Elizabeth Herrera is a Planned Parenthood board member.
“It’s beyond just access to abortion,” she told Missourinet. “We’re talking about all of the things that happen that will make a woman have to make that decision. It is a difficult decision, and there’s a lot of misinformation about what access to abortion is.”
Missouri is reportedly one of 10 states with efforts to restore the right to abortion.
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