The League has endorsed the Reproductive Freedom initiative petition to let voters decide if they want to end Missouri's strict ban on abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. Members have helped collect thousands of the necessary 171,000 signatures to get this IP on the November 2024 ballot. 

Click here for 10 reasons to sign the petition. For more information, contact Kay Park at ReproRights [at] lwvstl.org or go to @https://moconstitutionalfreedom.org.

Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:

• establish a right to make decisions about reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, with any governmental interference of that right presumed invalid;
• remove Missouri’s ban on abortion;
• allow regulation of reproductive health care to improve or maintain the health of the patient;
• require the government not to discriminate, in government programs, funding, and other activities, against persons providing or obtaining reproductive health care; and
• allow abortion to be restricted or banned after Fetal Viability except to protect the life or health of the woman?

State governmental entities estimate no costs or savings, but unknown impact. Local governmental entities estimate costs of at least $51,000 annually in reduced tax revenues. Opponents estimate a potentially significant loss to state revenue.

For more information, go to Missourians for Constitutional Freedom (moconstitutionalfreedom.org)

The League’s position since 1983 has been to “protect the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.”