Abortion Amendments Certified for November Ballots in Arizona, Missouri

Voters in Arizona and Missouri will decide this November whether obtaining an abortion is a “fundamental right.” Propositions to that effect were approved for both states’ general election ballots. The citizen-led initiatives, certified by officials this week, have similar language. If passed, they would enshrine a right to abortion through fetal viability—the point at which a baby is believed capable of survival outside the womb—and in cases where a doctor has deemed the mother’s life or health is at risk. If the amendments pass, the states would be part of a growing list of those that have voted in favor of abortion access in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling overturned the federal right to abortion....