Missouri's GOP attorney general says abortions after viability remain illegal under new amendment

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Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 7:48 PM, Nov 29, 2024


COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general has pledged to enforce some laws restricting abortion despite a new constitutional amendment widely expected to undo the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.

In an opinion requested by incoming GOP governor Mike Kehoe, Attorney General Andrew Bailey wrote that his office will continue enforcing a ban on abortion after fetal viability. There is an exception carved out in the amendment for cases in which a health care provider deems an abortion necessary to “protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant person.”

“Under the express terms of the amendment, the government may still protect innocent life after viability,” Bailey wrote. “The statutes thus remain generally enforceable after viability.” Bailey said his office also will continue to honor a Missouri law requiring parental permission for minors to receive abortions.

Bailey’s opinion comes after voters approved a ballot measure this month that enshrines abortion rights in the state constitution while allowing lawmakers to restrict or ban it after fetal viability.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/abortion/missouris-gop-attorney-general-says-abortions-after-viability-remain-illegal-under-new-amendment

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If the state owns bodies, they should so protect male gonads too

Sperm is a sea of viability. Swimming in it.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Fewer than 1% of abortions happen after 24 weeks. And those are necessary.

Late-term abortions are medically necessary to save the lives of women with severe pregnancy complications or to remove an unviable fetus. Tests performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy show unviable pregnancies, but Republicans target the very women who are most at risk of dying and deny them healthcare. Reprehensible.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Even when MO voters approved abortion rights.

Democracy is dead in red states.

[jimfields33]

4. That's depressing.

That means only 18 states have a democracy.

[Clouds Passing]

5. This is the beginning of legalized slavery in the US. Take away bodily autonomy of the largest most targeted

population first, then taking away everyone else’s bodily autonomy is a piece of cake.

[nwduke]

6. Decision and enforcement

By 2 men🤬

[nwduke]

7. Decision and enforcement

By 2 men? 🤬

[Old Crank]

8. If the state demands a woman give birth

The state needs to pay all costs involved until that child is 18 or 23.

[azureblue]

9. sort of like Eminent domain

The anti abortion law inflicts financial burden upon the mother, so the mother (and child) should be fully compensated, from pre natal care all the way until age of majority.