Jefferson City, Mo. A Missouri governor has canceled a voting summary to amend the control of abortion, supported by legislators in the Republican state, while he concluded that he presented an unfair and insufficient description of the voters.
On Friday, Daniel Green, a Cole County Judge, spent that the polling summary should be rewritten, but he rejected the request of abortion rights to prevent the proposed constitutional amendment from going to the voters.
The judge said that the summary prepared by the Republican lawmakers failed to inform the voters that the new procedure would expel the abortion rights adopted by the voters last year. The Minister of Foreign Affairs directed to write a new summary.
The latest ruling coincides with a series of transformations and turns in abortion policies in Missouri over the past three years.
When the United States Supreme Court ended a right throughout the country to abort Roe V. Wade In 2022, this raised a law in Missouri to obtain abortion “except for medical emergencies.” However, abortion rights activists then gathered the signs of the initiative to put their own management on the polling.
Last November, the voters in Missouri agreed with difficulty on a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion until the ability of the fetus, in general. At some point in 21 weeks of pregnancy. This measure known as modification 3 allows the subsequent abortion to protect the life or health of pregnant women and creates a “essential right to reproductive freedom”, which includes birth control, prenatal and post -birth care and “respected birth conditions”.
In May, the Legislative Commission, led by the Republicans, closed the democratic opposition and agreed to a new referendum that would cancel the amendment 3 and instead it allows abortion only to the condition of medical emergency or homosexuality, or in cases of rape or incest up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. This proposed amendment will also prohibit surgeries for gender transition, hormone treatments and adulthood of minors, which are already It is forbidden by the state law.
Defenders of the abortion rights argued in a lawsuit that the entire procedure should suffer from joining, claiming that the combination of abortion policies and transgender people violates a constitutional condition that the amendments contain only one topic. But Green agreed with Republican lawmakers that both topics are appropriate for the title of the scale of “reproductive health care”.
The order of the court provided both sides an opportunity to demand victory.
The office of the Prosecutor in Missouri Catherine Hanawi said in a statement that the court had supported “central constitutional cases.”
Tori Chevir, director of politics and campaigns in the American Civil Liberties Union in Missouri, said that the advocates of abortion rights “are pleased because the judge saw through the deceptive language of the Legislative Council” in the polling summary.
The office of the Public Prosecutor and Republican Deputy Republican Brian Citz, who defended the last measure, said they were confident in the ability of the Republican Foreign Minister Dini Hoskins to review the polling summary.
If it is a slight change in drafting, “I think we will be fine with that, because we want a well -off voter to know what they vote on,” said Sitsz on Friday.
The proposed amendment to the polling will appear in November 2026, unless the Republican Governor Mike Kayo determines the vote soon. The new measure is scheduled to be included as amendment 3 – the same number of original abortion modification.