When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters in the fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and ...

Missouri abortion rights supporters hold a celebratory press conference outside the state Capitol after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot. Kacen Bayless ...

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The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

Monday marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion. The Dobbs decision issued June 24, 2022 upheld Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks. Since then ...