Published on November 6, 2024 at 5:20 p.m. / Modified on November 6, 2024 at 5:47 p.m.
True to form, Missouri, which has not voted Democratic since Bill Clinton’s second election in 1996, decided to send the Republican candidate to the White House this time too, attributing more than 61% of his votes for Donald Trump. But voters in this rural, conservative Midwestern state also made another decision: overturning one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws. More than 52% of citizens approved an amendment enshrining the right to abortion in the State Constitution, thus legalizing it until the fetus is viable (i.e. approximately 24 weeks of pregnancy) on demand. of the mother. For comparison, in Switzerland, the legal deadline for an abortion is 14 weeks of amenorrhea.
On June 24, 2022, the Midwestern state became the first to issue a total ban on the termination of pregnancies even in cases of rape, incest or fatal fetal anomalies, just minutes after the overturning of the Roe ruling. v Wade. This turnaround by the Supreme Court, to which several conservative judges had been appointed during the first Trump administration, gave states full latitude to legislate in the area of abortion. Around twenty of them had since put in place partial or total restrictions.
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