Missouri could be the first state to overturn voter-approved abortion protections
Before Missouri became the first state in the country to overturn a near-total abortion ban in 2024, Republican lawmakers were already signaling a plan to strike down the results. “People will be given an opportunity to vote again,” Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, said before nearly 52% of voters enshrined abortion rights in the state Constitution. Republican lawmakers followed through with that promise and last year placed a new abortion ban on the Nov. 3 ballot. The proposal, called Amendment 3, would strike down the historic 2024 amendment that legalized access to the procedure. The upcoming vote has solidified Missouri as a key testing ground in the national fight over abortion rights. The first state to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Missouri made history two years later when its voters struck down the ban. Now, the state could be the first…