Missouri abortion rights group collects enough signatures to advance ballot measure

Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.

A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in Missouri’s constitution cleared a key hurdle Friday to appear on the ballot this year after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of valid signatures to state officials.

At the same time, the amendment would allow lawmakers and state officials to restrict or limit abortion rights in situations where doing so “is for the limited purpose and has the limited effect of improving or maintaining the health of a person seeking care, is consistent with widely accepted clinical standards of practice and evidence-based medicine, and does not infringe on that person’s autonomous decision-making.” Missouri currently has one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S.

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