Missouri AG Outlines Amendment 3 Enforcement & Impact

As politicos debate push back against this voter directive . . . The AG shares the facts of the decision so far . . . Here's the word . . .

(Missoui AG) Bailey argued that while any statutes prohibiting abortion prior to fetal viability will no longer be enforceable in their entirety, the state can still enforce laws on the books related to parental consent and cases where women or children “have unlawfully been pressured to abort.”

Bailey listed five state statutes that he said will in-part be “unenforceable” under Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion-rights in the Missouri Constitution. But he also included circumstances where he “will vigorously enforce” limitations on abortion.

The unlabeled opinion was posted on Nov. 22 to the attorney general’s website and was addressed from Bailey to Gov.-elect Mike Kehoe, seemingly at Kehoe’s request.

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Missouri AG lays out abortion restrictions he argues remain in place despite Amendment 3 * Missouri Independent

Missouri Attorney General Bailey in an opinion said the state can still enforce abortion laws around parental consent and abortion coercion.