Abortion rights constitutional protection
Voters in 2024 protected abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution; a 2026 ballot measure seeks to repeal that provision while preserving some emergency care exceptions and allowing further regulation of providers. Campaigns on both sides are organizing around Amendment 3 and related measures.
Should Missouri repeal the 2024 constitutional amendment that protected abortion rights through fetal viability?
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Sources
Missouri Independent — https://missouriindependent.com/2026/05/21/missouri-voters-could-face-as-many-as-nine-ballot-measures-in-2026
The campaign committees lined up to fight over Amendment 3 are Her Health, Her Future PAC, with First Lady Claudia Kehoe as treasurer, to back it, and Stop the Ban, which will reform the coalition that passed the 2024 amendment legalizing abortion.
Missouri Secretary of State — https://www.sos.mo.gov/petitions/2026ballotmeasures
A “yes” vote will repeal Article I, Section 36, of the Missouri Constitution approved by the voters in 2024 which provided reproductive healthcare rights, including abortion through fetal viability
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Strengthen and expand constitutional abortion rights beyond the 2024 protections
- Keep the 2024 constitutional protections for abortion through viability fully intact
- Allow limited regulations but leave the core 2024 right in place
- Repeal the 2024 amendment and let the legislature set stricter limits with health exceptions
- Repeal the amendment and enact a near-total ban with only narrow life-of-mother exceptions