Anti-abortion advocates in Missouri have filed a lawsuit against the state auditor in an effort to block a ballot initiative that aims to amend the constitution and protect abortion rights. Missouri currently has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, with no exceptions for rape or incest. The lawsuit seeks to challenge the financial impact statement of the proposed amendment.
Missouri currently has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country, with no rape or incest exceptions. The state does allow for abortions for extreme medical emergencies threatening the life of the mother.A proposed amendment for the 2024 election season would force a vote on enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution, along with adding explicit protections for contraception and in vitro fertilization.
Last month, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a complicated case that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is strongly opposed to abortion, improperly withheld his approval of the ballot initiative amendment based on the cost estimate of the state's auditor, Scott Fitzpatrick. Monday's lawsuit, filed by Republican state Rep. Hannah Kelly, Republican state Sen. Elizabeth Coleman, and New Bloomfield anti-abortion advocate Kathy Forck, asserts that overriding the extant abortion ban will hurt the state.
The lawsuit argues that the auditor has a responsibility to inform constituents of “the certain and significant financial losses to Missouri that will attend the destruction of large numbers of future Missouri citizens, workers, creators, taxpayers, and heads of families.”“The proposed amendments would allow the destruction of thousands of pre-born Missouri citizens a year, with profound consequences to Missourians that far eclipse financial concerns,” the plaintiffs argue.
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