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Our call — vote YES
The measure
Amendment 3 is a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It would prohibit abortion in most cases — repealing the 2024 voter-approved reproductive rights provision (Article I, Section 36) — allowing abortion only in specified circumstances including medical emergency, rape or incest within 12 weeks of gestation, and fetal anomaly, while preserving care for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages, and it would prohibit gender transition procedures for minors under eighteen, including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty-blocking drugs, subject to stated medical exceptions.
What YES does
A YES vote repeals the 2024 abortion-rights amendment, restores strong protection for unborn life with narrow exceptions, requires parental involvement for minors, and constitutionally bars gender-transition procedures on children.
What NO does
A NO vote keeps the 2024 provision in Missouri's constitution — abortion protected through fetal viability, with regulation allowed after viability — and leaves no constitutional ban on minor gender-transition procedures.
The math
No fiscal note changing state spending by a stated amount was published in the summaries consulted; the measure's published descriptions address rights and prohibitions, not a dollar figure, so none is printed.
OUR CALL
Our call: YES.
This amendment does the two clearest duties in our rubric at once: it protects life and it protects children from irreversible medical procedures before they can consent as adults. The 2024 amendment wrote abortion through viability into the constitution; Amendment 3 corrects that, with exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and fetal anomaly stated in the text.
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Sources: Missouri Secretary of State, 2026 Ballot Measures (sos.mo.gov/petitions/2026BallotMeasures); Ballotpedia News and Missouri ballot summaries of Amendment 3 (2026).
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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