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Missouri Abortion Ban Initiative (2018)

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Missouri Abortion Ban Initiative
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Election date
November 6, 2018
Topic
Abortion
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
State statute		Origin
Citizens

The Missouri Abortion Ban Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The measure was designed to ban abortion by prohibiting state residents from performing, procuring, or attempting to perform an abortion in Missouri or outside the state.[1]

The measure would have also stated that Missouri "recognizes that all persons have a natural right to life including the right to life of every unborn human child at every stage of biological development and shall protect such life from deprivation by the state or private action."[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the initiative is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

Supporters of an initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 8 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 160,199. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.

Rush Loftis proposed the initiative on August 29, 2017. The secretary of state rejected the petition for the initiative.[1]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-270," August 29, 2017
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