JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A coalition of abortion-rights organizations is now gathering signatures to reverse the state’s abortion ban, causing tensions to run high in the Missouri Senate.
It’s been a tough start to the year in the upper chamber, and the announcement of the campaign—whose goal is to create a citizen’s right to an abortion in the Missouri Constitution—only fractures things further among Republicans. Some members stood their ground for hours Thursday to change the initiative petition process.
“We should not even be in this situation, but here we are,” Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, R-Sikeston, said.
The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.
(Story by Megan Mueller, Emily Manley, ozarksfirst.com)
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