Show-Me Abortion Ballot Language Rewrite

An update to Missouri drama and more tinkering with the effort that has SURPRISING support amongst women on both sides of the partisan aisle.

Here is the word . . .

A Cole County judge on Thursday ruled that Ashcroft’s “fair ballot language” summary of the reproductive rights amendment, also known as Amendment 3, was “unfair, inaccurate, insufficient and misleading.”

“Intentionally of not, the secretary’s language sows voter confusion about the effects of the measure,” Circuit Judge Cotton Walker wrote in a Thursday afternoon decision . . .

Walker on Thursday provided new “fair ballot language” to be posted on the secretary of state’s website and at polling places. It reads:

“A ‘yes’ vote establishes a constitutional right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid; removes Missouri’s ban on abortion; allows regulation of reproductive health care to improve of maintain the health of the patient; requires the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding, and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care; and allows abortion to be restricted or banned after fetal viability except to protect the life or health of the woman.”

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Judge calls Ashcroft's characterization of abortion amendment 'unfair' and 'misleading' * Missouri Independent

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