Thursday, December 05, 2024

Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.

One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it -- or at least undermine it.

Posted by retort at 09:25 AM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has acknowledged that the state's ban on most abortions will no longer be enforceable after a voter-approved amendment protecting abortion rights goes into effect on Dec. 5. www.stlpr.org/government-p ...

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-- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) November 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM

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The will of their Missouri Voters be damned, the Evangelical bullies need to control women and their vajeejies, their periods, sex lives, and fallopian tubes, dang it.

They have a plan.

FFS, the McDonald's happy meals predate the Evangelical's 'theological' battle cry that 'life begins at conception'.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-12-05 10:29 AM

Conservatives speak with forked tongue

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-05 10:37 AM

This isn't a shock to anyone who's familiar with MO politics.

A few years ago, the voters approved Medicaid expansion.

The Repubs that control government simply refused to fund it as a way to kill it. One of the GOP state legislators even went so far as to say something along the lines of it's part of our job to save the voters from themselves.'

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2024-12-05 01:09 PM

OK then. Let's do this again, but with guns. Saying the Second Amendment doesn't count and much great gun control is necessary would have many in the Show Me state up in arms--literally...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-12-05 01:25 PM

People vote in churches in some places in MO. Think about that.

#5 | Posted by Brennnn at 2024-12-05 03:06 PM

Maybe they should have voted for Kamala and the Democrats as well. That's their problem to solve and no one else's. Thoughts and prayers.

#6 | Posted by dibblda at 2024-12-05 09:17 PM

One of the GOP state legislators even went so far as to say something along the lines of it's part of our job to save the voters from themselves.

It's too bad liberals aren't domestic terrorists.

Then we'd finally see some change in the government.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 09:20 PM

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