The ban also has no exceptions for incest or rape. A 13-year-old rape victim without access to emergency contraception has to carry her pregnancy to term in Missouri.
And Missouri's law is written so poorly that a crappy Attorney General or prosecutor could try to punish women who take the abortion pill early on during their pregnancy.
Our ban is so extreme that even President Donald Trump disagrees with it, and did so publicly right after it went into effect in 2022. He did so again commenting on Arizona's new ban just a few days ago.
In Missouri and Arizona, voters have an opportunity to get reproductive freedom on the ballot. Our deadline to collect signatures in Missouri is approaching very quickly, and there's a lot more work to do.
Missouri's ballot initiative isn't just about abortion care. It ensures access to IVF treatments. It stops the government from banning birth control. It would prevent a proposal from one state senator in Missouri to empower law enforcement officers to interrogate visitors to Missouri if they are suspected of conceiving in our state. It limits the power of Big Government to interfere in the lives of Missourians.
The bottom line is that this shouldn't be the government's business.
Passing a ballot initiative is the first big step, but it won't be the last one. Once reproductive freedom is placed into Missouri's constitution, our Attorney General will be the one charged with defending those rights.
Andrew Bailey cannot be trusted to do his job. He already abused his office to illegally delay this process for months in an effort to strip Missourians of our constitutional right to put issues on the ballot. What do you think he'll do if he's elected to a full term?
We have to fire Andrew Bailey.
