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riversedge

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Tue Dec 10, 2024, 11:14 AM Dec 10

Shorter Missouri GOP: 'To Hell With The Will Of The Voters!' [View all]

Source: crooksandliars.com


Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.


December 10, 2024 by Jeremy Kohler



One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it — or at least undermine it.

One measure would ask voters to amend the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception, declaring that embryos are people with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The result would be to classify abortion as an unlawful killing.

Another proposal, aimed at repealing the abortion rights amendment, would ask voters to ban gender transition procedures for minors, tying the two issues together, despite the fact that the amendment did not address gender surgery and gender-affirming care for transgender children is already illegal in Missouri...............................




Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/shorter-missouri-gop-hell-will-voters



Goodness----"killing" is already "unlawful".







Shorter Missouri GOP: 'To Hell With The Will Of The Voters!' St Louis, Missouri, 2022Credit: Getty Images
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