Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment

ProPublica reports, in a story published on Friday, that Missouri Republicans are backing a new constitutional measure also labeled Amendment Three that would restore the state's near‑total abortion ban while embedding a prohibition on gender‑transition care for minors. The proposal mirrors the 2024 amendment that voters approved to protect abortion rights, but its sponsors are pairing the abortion restriction with already‑existing limits on minors' gender‑affirming treatment to make the ballot measure more appealing. Critics describe the gender‑care clause as “ballot candy,” noting that Missouri law already bans those procedures and that the amendment would simply constitutionalize those limits. Voters will decide in November whether a yes vote erases the constitutional right to abortion approved two years earlier, according to ProPublica.

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