Missouri voters likely to reinstate abortion rights if given the chance, Republicans say

[RandySF]

As Missouri girds for an anticipated fight at the ballot box next year over an amendment overturning its near-total abortion ban, some Republicans have begun saying they expect a majority of voters to support restoring access to the procedure.

The stark admissions have also been accompanied by intense efforts to make it harder for Missourians to amend the state constitution – an extraordinary acknowledgment that the Republican-controlled General Assembly must erode direct democracy in the state or risk decades of anti-abortion policy unraveling in a single election.

“I think we all believe that an initiative petition will be brought forth to allow choice,” House Speaker Dean Plocher, a St. Louis Republican, said Friday. “I believe it will pass. Absolutely.”

Plocher’s remarkable comments come near the beginning of what is almost certain to be a furious 18-month race to the November 2024 general election, when an abortion rights amendment is likely to appear if one qualifies for the ballot.

Missouri, the first state to ban abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, could also potentially become the first state where voters reverse an abortion ban.




https://news.yahoo.com/missouri-voters-likely-reinstate-abortion-103000982.html

[dalton99a]

1. "Don't let them vote on this"

[Aristus]

2. It should come as no surprise that the stupid party

did not anticipate that their long-sought ban on medical choice would come back to bite them in their stupid asses.

[Trenzalore]

3. Republicans don't want abortion on the ballot in a general election

Missouri would be tough to flip for a Presidential candidate but down ticket races might be flipped with turnout

[Freethinker65]

4. So why TF don't these Republicans represent their constituents NOW?

[Lovie777]

5. I don't know, but the rate the GQPs are going, red state voting may be close.......................

especially in the Presidential elections.

That said, ya know the GQP will do their best to deny any state wide voting on abortion.

[localroger]

6. They're the dog that caught the car. /nt

[Hekate]

7. AFAIK every state that's put abortion ban to a direct vote, the ban has lost. Clearly, the answer...

…their legislators seek can only be produced by overthrowing direct democracy and by altering voting access.

Hmmmm.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. K & R