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Missouri voters approve Amendment 6, strengthening protections for voter-approved laws

Headline from Ozarks First, on the newest of 2 developments

Missouri voters have approved Amendment 6, a ballot measure that aims to strengthen protections for laws approved by voters through the state’s initiative petition and referendum process, according to Associated Press race call projections.

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  1. Anti-Amendment 3 voters take to the ballots

    Headline from ABC 17 Mid-Missouri ·

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    Missouri voters approve Amendment 6, strengthening protections for voter-approved laws

    Headline from Ozarks First ·

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  1. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    QUESTION OF THE DAY: How will Missouri vote on Amendment 3? (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    ABC 17 Mid-Missouri's feed description

    Election Day is here, and Missouri voters will make some big policy decisions. One of them is Amendment 3, which would ban abortion and transgender medical care for minors. This Amendment 3 would overturn an amendment bearing the same number that was approved by Missouri voters in 2024.

  2. FOX 4 Kansas City

    Missouri voters to decide on future of abortion rights with Amendment 3 (opens FOX 4 Kansas City)

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    FOX 4 Kansas City's feed description

    Nearly two years after Missouri voters approved a measure to legalize abortion throughout the state, Amendment 3 will return to the ballot in Tuesday's midterm election.

  3. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Anti-Amendment 3 voters take to the ballots (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    ST. LOUIS (KMIZ) Missouri voters are set to vote on Amendment 3 on Tuesday, which, if approved, would repeal the constitutional 'right to reproductive freedom' that was put into place in 2024, and ban gender transition procedures for minors.

  4. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Amendment 3 supporters gather in Columbia (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri voters have a second chance Tuesday to cast a ballot on abortion access since it was approved in 2024. If passed, Amendment 3 would generally ban abortion in the state with exceptions for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, and rape or incest through 12 weeks of pregn…

  5. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Amendment 6 supporters significantly outspend opponents in Missouri (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    ABC 17 Mid-Missouri's feed description

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri voters will decide Tuesday whether to make it harder for state lawmakers to change or repeal laws approved through the citizen initiative petition process. Amendment 6 would change the Missouri Constitution to strengthen protections for citizens' initiative and referen…

  6. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Amendment 6 protecting Missouri ballot measures leads in early results (opens St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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    St. Louis Post-Dispatch's feed description

    Amendment 6 would give voter-approved ballot measures, and the direct democracy power itself, greater protections in the Missouri Constitution.

  7. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Amendment 3, to restrict abortion in Missouri, trails in early vote count (opens St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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    Amendment 3 would repeal the 2024 abortion-rights amendment that 52% of voters approved, replacing it with broad abortion restrictions.

  8. NPR

    Missourians reject ballot proposal that would have re-imposed an abortion ban (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    Missouri voters defeated a measure that would have banned abortion just two years after voters legalized abortion in another vote. Voters in Missouri legalized abortion two years ago but this time the abortion ban was coupled with a ban on transgender treatment for minors.

  9. FOX 2 St. Louis

    Amendment 3 fails as Missourians back abortion rights (opens FOX 2 St. Louis)

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    FOX 2 St. Louis's feed description

    Missourians have decided to protect existing abortion laws in the state by voting against Amendment 3.

  10. Mother Jones

    Missouri Defeats an Abortion Ban at the Ballot Box—Again (opens Mother Jones)

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    When the final poll on Missouri’s Amendment 3 was released two weeks before Tuesday’s election, it showed a dead heat—an understandable result given that the anti-abortion, anti-trans ballot measure was profoundly, and intentionally, confusing. But Missourians figured it out.

  11. Washington Examiner

    Missourians vote down amendment to limit abortion and transgender medicine for minors (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Missouri voters on Tuesday thwarted an attempt to repeal the state’s constitutional right to abortion and to prohibit transgender medical procedures for minors. Amendment 3, which would have repealed a 2024 constitutional amendment legalizing abortion, failed by a vote of 55.2% to 44.

  12. The M

    Missouri Voters Roundly Reject Trans Fearmongering, Vote Down Abortion Ban (opens The M)

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    This story originally appeared on The Advocate . Missouri voters have rejected an amendment that would have reversed reproductive rights protections they adopted in 2024 and placed restrictions on transgender minors’ medical care in the state constitution.

  13. The Hill

    Missouri rejects ballot measure to overturn abortion protections (opens The Hill)

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    Missouri voted to protect abortion access Tuesday, Decision Desk HQ projects, narrowly rejecting a ballot measure that would have reinstated a near-total abortion ban just two years after it was overturned.

  14. Conservative Review

    Missouri cements abortion in state constitution, kills ban on trans surgeries for kids (opens Conservative Review)

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    Missouri has once again voted in favor of a constitutional amendment enshrining abortion "rights" in the formerly pro-life state's constitution. The amendment first passed narrowly in 2024. Republican lawmakers provided Missouri on Tuesday with an opportunity not only to undo the 2024 constitutional…

  15. FOX 4 Kansas City

    Missouri voters pass Amendment 6 to protect citizens' right to petition (opens FOX 4 Kansas City)

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    FOX 4 Kansas City's feed description

    Missouri voters on Tuesday passed Amendment 6, which protects the petition process.

  16. Ozarks First

    Missouri voters approve Amendment 6, strengthening protections for voter-approved laws (opens Ozarks First)

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    Missouri voters have approved Amendment 6, a ballot measure that aims to strengthen protections for laws approved by voters through the state’s initiative petition and referendum process, according to Associated Press race call projections.

  17. Truthout

    Missouri Voters Reject Effort to Overturn Their State’s Abortion Protections (opens Truthout)

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    Truthout's feed description

    The measure would also have banned gender-affirming care for transgender minors, which is already illegal in the state.

  18. ABC News

    Missouri voters reject anti-abortion amendment, reaffirming 'reproductive freedom' (opens ABC News)

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    Voters in Missouri rejected an anti-abortion measure on the ballot that would have prohibited abortions, with some exceptions.

  19. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    With big loss for Amendment 3, what's next for abortion opponents in Missouri? (opens St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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    "We're gonna have to look at a new strategy, I think," said one state rep. "We're going to have to look at child care interests. We're going to have to look at families."

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