Three months after Missouri voters enshrined reproductive rights in the state constitution, abortion remains unavailable as the state’s main provider fights legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure.
At the same time, opponents of abortion in the state Legislature, stung by the passage of Amendment 3 in November, have filed a raft of bills aimed at thwarting implementation of the measure or undercutting its goals while they try to find a unified strategy to prevent the return of abortion services.
This week, state lawmakers held a hearing on a conservative-backed plan to put a new amendment on the ballot that would block most abortions. If passed by the General Assembly, the measure could go to voters as soon as this year.
Wasn’t Missouri the place where Rush Limbaugh’s cousin saw the words on the amendment: “Allow abortion”, said “This amendment clearly allows kids to get sex changes” and then went “No one was informed that they were supporting child sex change when they signed, so I call fraud and I’m striking the amendment from the ballot.”
Then the people running the amendment campaign told the state supreme court: “We didn’t tell anyone that this would support child sex changes because it doesn’t. We have no idea what crazy pills Limbaugh is on,” and the state supreme court was like: “Ya, he is an idiot.”
Sounds like the legislator’s “clarification” is just a continuation of this “let’s tie trans stuff to abortion” theme.