Even if ballot measures pass, it may time to unwind conflicting laws.
Demonstrators hold signs"Bans Off Our Bodies" as they protest during a rally for reproductive freedom and voting rights on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 3, 2022.
"It felt really important to allow the legislative process to go forward, and then to consider litigation if there were still statutes that were on the books the legislature hadn't repealed," Smith said.by the state's Democratic governor in December. But the package left some regulations intact, including the mandatory waiting period, mandatory counseling, and a ban on abortions by non-doctor clinicians, such as nurse practitioners and midwives.
"So, then she's got to go get arrested and show up in court and then defend herself based on this new constitutional amendment?" Hill said. "For obvious reasons, that is not a system that we want to have."to write protections for abortion into the state constitution. Abortions in Missouri have been banned in nearly every circumstance since 2022, but they were largely halted years earlier by a series of laws seeking to make abortions scarce.
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