Missouri Abortion Rights Measure Certified For Ballot

St. Louis’s CBS affiliate reports:

Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

The secretary of state’s office certified Tuesday that an initiative petition received more than enough signatures from registered voters to qualify for the general election. It will need approval from a majority of voters to become enshrined in the state constitution.

Missouri will join at least a half-dozen states voting on abortion rights during the presidential election. Arizona’s secretary of state certified an abortion-rights measure for the ballot on Monday. Measures also will go before voters in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota.

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Missouri secretary of state Jay Ashcroft [photo] last appeared here in January when he threatened to ban Biden from the ballot in retaliation for Colorado having attempted to do so to Trump. Ashcroft is the son of former Missouri governor and US Attorney General John Ashcroft.

We did it! We MORE THAN DOUBLED our goal for signatures gathered to put abortion on the ballot, collecting over 380,000! We wouldn’t have made it here without your unwavering commitments to the @Missourians4CF campaign. Let’s keep going until we #EndTheBanMO at the ballot box! pic.twitter.com/ge8jNcInk5

— Abortion Action Missouri (@AbortionAction) May 3, 2024