The resolution, if passed by voters, would remove the provisions that were in Amendment 3 and instead allow abortion only in cases of rape, incest, medical emergencies or fetal anomalies. It would also restrict transgender youth from accessing appropriate health care.

Initiative petition allows any Missourian to put a question on the statewide ballot if they get enough signatures. Most recently, it’s how Missourians legalized marijuana and brought back abortion.

In an earlier ruling, the judge struck down several “targeted regulation of abortion provider” statutes, or TRAP laws, but left others in effect.

Planned Parenthood hopes a Jackson County judge will reconsider a December decision that kept some abortion restrictions in place.

Missouri voters passed Amendment 3 in November 2024, enshrining the right to an abortion. The procedure still isn't available in the state, as a judge considers Planned Parenthood's lawsuit to strike down several abortion restrictions in state law.

Missouri made history in November when voters enshrined abortion access and reproductive rights into the state's constitution. Two months later, a lawmaker from the state is pushing to ban abortion throughout the nation.