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.

Missouri Republicans formally began the push to reinstate a ban on abortion Tuesday night, with a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing the procedure with limited exceptions for victims rape and incest.

After Missouri became the first state to reverse a total abortion ban, some lawmakers are saying the system to get abortion on the ballot shouldn’t be allowed to continue.

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

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

Eric Burlison's Life at Conception Act has almost 70 cosponsors. It argues that a fetus is a person under the 14th Amendment.

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.

Lawmakers heard legislation Tuesday to reverse what voters approved in November as GOP members are trying to make abortion illegal in the state again.