2024 Missouri Constitutional Amendment 3, also known as the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, is a proposed constitutional amendment that will appear on the ballot on November 5, 2024. If passed, the initiative would amend the Constitution of Missouri to legalize abortion in Missouri before fetal viability.
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Ballot language
editThe amendment will appear on the ballot as follows:[1]
Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:
- establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid;
- remove Missouri’s ban on abortion;
- allow regulation of reproductive health care to improve or maintain the health of the patient;
- require the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding, and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care; and
- allow abortion to be restricted or banned after Fetal Viability except to protect the life or health of the woman?
State governmental entities estimate no costs or savings, but unknown impact. Local governmental entities estimate costs of at least $51,000 annually in reduced tax revenues. Opponents estimate a potentially significant loss to state revenue.
Polling
edit| Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Yes | No | Undecided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Louis University/YouGov | August 8–16, 2024 | 900 (LV) | ± 3.8% | 52% | 34% | 14% |
| Saint Louis University/YouGov | February 14–26, 2024 | 899 (LV) | ± 3.7% | 44% | 37% | 19% |
See also
edit- Abortion in Missouri
- List of Missouri ballot measures
- 2022 Kansas abortion referendum
- 2022 California Proposition 1
- 2022 Michigan Proposal 3
- 2022 Vermont Proposal 5
- November 2023 Ohio Issue 1
- 2024 Arizona Proposition 139
- 2024 Colorado Initiative Measure 89
- 2024 Florida Amendment 4
- 2024 Maryland Question 1
- 2024 Montana Initiative 128
- 2024 Nebraska Right to Abortion Initiative
- 2024 New York Equal Protection of Law amendment referendum
- 2024 South Dakota Amendment G
References
edit- ^ "2024 Ballot Measures". www.sos.mo.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2024.