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Missouri voters will decide on November 3 whether to approve Amendment 3, which would reinstate an abortion ban allowing exceptions only for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, rape, or incest within the first 12 weeks. The amendment also includes provisions to permanently restrict gender transition treatments for minors, with current Missouri law already prohibiting such surgeries.

The New Bloomfield Topic covers the activities of abortion abolitionists. The report is associated with KRCG, a Missouri news outlet.

The Missouri House passed a bill requiring health care providers to preserve the life of newborns after failed abortions, with penalties including criminal prosecution and the death penalty for noncompliance. The legislation, co-sponsored by Missouri Republicans Brian Seitz and Holly Jones, grants full personhood rights to babies born alive following failed partial-birth or late-term abortions and allows lawsuits against those assisting with illegal medication abortions.

The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals has ordered a rewrite of the ballot summary for Amendment 3, which concerns the repeal of abortion rights in Missouri. The court found the current summary, prepared by Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and the Republican-led legislature, to be misleading and unclear about the amendment's impact on abortion rights granted by voters last year.