Missouri rejects ballot measure to overturn abortion protections

Missouri voted to protect abortion access Tuesday, Decision Desk HQ projects, narrowly rejecting a ballot measure that would have reinstated a near-total abortion ban just two years after it was overturned. 

Missouri in 2024 became the first state to use a ballot measure to overturn a near-total abortion ban and put a reproductive freedom amendment in the state constitution. That measure, also called Amendment 3, was approved by a narrow 51.6 percent majority. 

Nearly 54 percent of voters rejected the measure, with 15 percent of the vote reported.

The GOP-dominated legislature, furious at the result, set out to change it. They used a legislative maneuver to place a question on the ballot that........

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