PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

After the overturn of Roe v. Wade  in June 2022, Missouri House Democrats helped advance and subsequently defend a citizen-initiative petition to put the restoration of reproductive rights to a statewide vote.  Despite fielding every legal challenge and administrative snarl opponents could manifest, voters decided in November 2024 to amend the state constitution to secure reproductive rights for Missourians. 

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Since then, however, Missouri's elected Republicans abused their supermajority and their control of state agencies to strip away the newly secured constitutional right. They've also composed an extremely deceptive new ballot initiative aimed at misleading voters into forfeiting their own reproductive rights. That scheme is poised to appear on a ballot in 2026. 

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House Democrats are deeply committed to protecting an individual's bodily autonomy and to leaving health care decisions up to those individuals and their health care professionals.