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Will Missouri vote on abortion rights in 2024? As deadline looms, it’s getting complicated
Mar 22, 2024 | By Kacen Bayless in The Kansas City Star
Featuring Pamela Merritt, MSFC's Executive Director.
With the clock ticking to get a measure enshrining the right to an abortion on a statewide ballot in 2024, Missouri abortion rights supporters appear to be split on strategy and have not unified behind one version of the proposal. The lack of a campaign, as well as a series of legal battles with anti-abortion Republican officials that kept the abortion rights petitions tied up in court for months…
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