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Missouri voters will decide on Amendment 3, which would repeal constitutional abortion rights and ban gender-affirming care for minors, reversing the 2024 protections. The state also faces key elections and ballot measures including a vote on a GOP-drawn congressional map (Proposition A) and Amendment 6, which would make it harder to change voter-approved laws, with outcomes potentially signaling shifts in Missouri's political landscape.

Transgender care is a central issue in the Missouri campaign to reinstate the state's abortion ban. The campaign highlights transgender care as part of its efforts to influence abortion legislation in Missouri.

Reproductive liberty encompasses issues beyond abortion. The commentary is featured on the Missouri Independent, indicating a focus on reproductive rights within Missouri.

A Missouri nonprofit has launched a campaign focused on abortion options ahead of the November vote. The campaign aims to inform voters in Missouri about abortion-related issues before the election.

Missouri's Amendment 3 would repeal the reproductive health protections added to the state constitution in 2024, allow lawmakers to restrict abortion with limited exceptions, and constitutionally prohibit gender-transition procedures for minors. Some of Missouri's most outspoken abortion opponents oppose Amendment 3, arguing it does not go far enough, revealing a split within the state's anti-abortion movement.

More Missouri women had abortions while the state was under a near-total abortion ban than they did in the years before, when abortion was legal but highly restricted. That fact has become a fault line among Missouri conservatives debating Amendment 3 — a divide that could matter in an election recent polling suggests may again […]

Since 2017, a D.C.-based nonprofit called the Fairness Project has poured more than $13 million into Missouri campaigns. Every campaign it backed that has reached Missouri voters has won. And now it is making its biggest investment yet in the state. In 2024, The Fairness Project gave more than $4.5 million to a citizen-led ballot […]

A recent SLU/YouGov poll shows Missouri voters nearly evenly split on November's Amendment 3, which would repeal the 2024 reproductive rights amendment and reinstate an abortion ban with limited exceptions. The poll also reveals that the amendment includes a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and support varies significantly by region, gender, and party affiliation within Missouri.

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office spent $167,000 in state funds to air a statewide PSA warning about abortion clinics ahead of the November vote on Amendment 3, which would reinstate a near-total abortion ban. The PSA, developed with an anti-abortion medical group, will air through September 30 and echoes arguments supporting the amendment that Hanaway endorses.

Planned Parenthood's Springfield clinic in Missouri has begun offering procedural abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, marking the first time in 21 years that abortion access has returned to the Missouri Ozarks. This expansion follows the 2024 constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights in Missouri, with the clinic joining others in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis in providing in-clinic abortion procedures.

Missouri women like Marlene Hammerman and Rose-Lynn Sokol have been fighting for abortion rights for decades, including volunteering at the state's first abortion clinic and supporting the 2024 ballot initiative that overturned Missouri's criminal abortion ban. Following the defeat of Amendment 4, which would have made future abortion decriminalization via citizen initiatives nearly impossible, Missouri legislators have referred Amendment 3 to the ballot to reinstate the abortion ban if passed.

Michael Bloomberg donated $1.25 million to the Missouri campaign Stop the Ban, which opposes Amendment 3, a proposed 2026 ballot measure that would reinstate a near-total abortion ban in Missouri. The campaign has raised over $6.5 million, significantly outpacing the pro-ban PAC Her Health, Her Future, which has raised just over $1 million and is backed by Gov. Mike Kehoe and First Lady Claudia Kehoe.

More than 3,200 Missourians obtained abortion pills by mail through out-of-state telehealth providers in 2025, nearly quadrupling from about 880 two years earlier. Despite a Jackson County court ruling allowing in-state medication abortions, Missouri still bans telehealth prescriptions for abortion pills, forcing many residents to seek care from providers in other states.

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Springfield, Missouri, resumed offering medication abortion services for the first time in over 20 years following a June court decision that struck down several state abortion regulations. The clinic also expanded pain management options for IUD placements and other procedures, improving local reproductive healthcare access in southwest Missouri.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the 'Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act' into law, making it a first-degree murder offense, potentially punishable by death, for healthcare providers who knowingly kill a child born alive after an abortion attempt. The law has sparked opposition from Democrats and some Republicans in Missouri, who argue it is unnecessary, could harm providers caring for families with fatal fetal diagnoses, and may conflict with the Missouri Constitution's abortion protections and single subject requirement.

In the Missouri Senate District 4 Democratic primary in St. Louis and St. Louis County, Gina Mitten challenges incumbent Steve Butz, with abortion rights and policing as key dividing issues. Butz emphasizes public safety and police support, while Mitten criticizes his opposition to abortion rights and highlights her union endorsements.

Missourians can access medication abortion at in-state Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Columbia, and Kansas City for the first time since 2018 following a Jackson County judge's ruling that struck down most abortion restrictions under the state's 2024 abortion-rights amendment. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway plans to appeal the decision, while clinics work to expand medication abortion access despite some restrictions remaining in effect.

A Jackson County judge struck down nearly all of Missouri's abortion regulations, including laws requiring hospital privileges, complication plans, and special clinic licenses, allowing medication abortion to be available in the state for the first time since 2018. Planned Parenthood announced it will begin offering medication abortion appointments next week at clinics in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia, while Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway plans to appeal the decision to the Missouri Supreme Court.

Missouri's Amendment 3, appearing on the November 2026 ballot, would repeal the 2024 reproductive rights amendment and impose a near-total abortion ban along with a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The Stop the Ban Missouri coalition, backed by nearly $4 million including a $2 million ACLU donation, is campaigning against the measure, arguing it overturns the 2024 vote that restored abortion rights in the state.

Missouri passed the "Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," which mandates aggressive medical intervention for infants born alive after abortions, potentially eliminating palliative care options for babies with life-limiting conditions. Critics warn the law could harm families facing medical crises by forcing futile treatments and interfering with end-of-life care decisions.

Missouri's House approved the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which allows first-degree murder charges against anyone who knowingly kills a child born alive after an attempted abortion, and the bill now heads to Governor Mike Kehoe. The legislation, a top Republican priority, faced heated debate over its impact on medical providers and was passed after removing language allowing civil lawsuits related to illegal abortions.

Missouri Republicans are prioritizing the 'Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,' which would make it first-degree murder to kill a child born alive after an attempted abortion and could impose the death penalty on healthcare providers who fail to provide life-saving care. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Brad Hudson and supported by Rep. Brian Seitz, faces opposition from some Republicans and Democrats who cite constitutional and medical concerns, but it is expected to move quickly through the Missouri House before the legislative session ends.

Missouri Senate Republicans removed civil liability provisions from the 'Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act' after a deal with Democrats, who secured additions like expanding the state's maternal mortality review board. The revised bill, prioritized by Republican lawmakers including Sen. Brad Hudson of Cape Fair, now requires healthcare providers to give care to infants born alive after failed abortions but no longer allows lawsuits against those involved in illegal abortions, including medication abortions.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has made Missouri a central battleground in the national fight over mifepristone by pushing legislation to revoke its federal approval, urging a Justice Department investigation into its manufacturer, and supporting lawsuits challenging the drug's access in Missouri courts. Missouri is also the lead plaintiff in a major federal lawsuit against mifepristone, with the state's attorney general pursuing separate legal action against Planned Parenthood to limit the drug's availability under consumer-protection laws.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to end Title X family planning funds to Missouri's sole grantee, Beacon Reproductive Health Network, accusing it of providing abortion referrals and gender-affirming care. Beacon, which distributes Title X grants to 65 Missouri health centers including Planned Parenthood locations, said Hawley's claims are misleading and warned that cutting funding would force many clinics across Missouri to close, severely impacting access to reproductive and sexual healthcare.