"Today, Missourians made history and sent a clear message: decisions around pregnancy, including abortion, birth control, and miscarriage care are personal and private and should be left up to patients and their families, not politicians," said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager of Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, highlighting the significant shift in public opinion regarding abortion rights in Missouri.
The Missouri and Florida results represent firsts in the abortion landscape, which underwent a seismic shift in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a ruling that ended a nationwide right to abortion and cleared the way for bans to take effect in most Republican-controlled states, indicating increasing political engagement on this issue.
Under the amendment, lawmakers would be able to restrict abortions past the point of a fetus' viability - usually considered after 21 weeks, although there's no exact defined time frame, showing the complexities involved in legislation around abortion.
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