Die Wähler von Missouri stellten die Abtreibungsrechte wieder her. Ihre Führer versuchen, sie außer Kraft zu setzen.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/missouri-abortion-rights-laws-protections/
Die Wähler von Missouri stellten die Abtreibungsrechte wieder her. Ihre Führer versuchen, sie außer Kraft zu setzen.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/missouri-abortion-rights-laws-protections/
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Typical GOP. They truly hate their constituents, and every action they take proves that.
It’s weird the GOP majority was voted in along with the amendment to legalize abortion. Strange.
Remember – when too many people get involved in politics the Powers That Be have historically referred to this as a Crisis of Democracy. Seriously. Take that to heart.
Republicans hate democracy
Missouri politicians have several times over the years fought to overturn items just passed in popular elections.
So Missouri is patting voters on their heads saying they are dumb and stupid, didn’t understand what they voted for so they are trying to reverse it. What part of democracy do they not understand. The people voted to make abortions legal. It’s not up the the state government to try and over turn that vote. They should be removed from office for trying such foolishness.
These headlines might actually be more informative, if they were crafted with even just a hint of context… the one for this article for instance, would convey a much clearer and much more complete message, if it had been worded more carefully – e.g.,
>Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. GOP leaders again try to nullify their 51% choice.
Republicans are pro Democracy, until Democracy disagrees with them. Then, they try to force their way.
Missouri resident here. This is beyond frustrating. Strongly considering going to Jeff City in a couple weeks to protest or demonstrate. Absolutely ridiculous. We the people voted for women’s right to health care and the asshole „Christians“ are trying to overturn it.
We should probably stop referring to them as “leaders”, instead call them representatives.
They did this when we shot down right to work. We’re a right to work state now, despite voting against it. This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest this is happening. I even said on election day that I’m voting for abortion right, but I’m not holding my breath that it’ll stick.
Well.
Because Missouri voters keep voting for them.
Look, the biggest problem comes from suburban white people and this whole culture of religious and white identity attached to this.
It’s a complex as it is stupid.
Stop voting for people who don’t represent you.
And they’re cravenly trying to pit trans rights against abortion by saying that the amendment will also ban transition treatment
Maybe they will finally learn voting for something then voting in republicans is like writing in an answer and handing the teacher an eraser for it.
Missouri continues to be under-recognized as a strange place.
It’s always, let the people decide and then when they do …
They keep using transgender people as the boogeyman in their bills. When I told one of our legislators (Mike Costlow MO disrict 108) to stop doing that and that women are not afraid of transgender people, we are afraid of men that want to control us by any means necessary, he said and I quote, “ And I understand why your fear of ‚men that want to control women‘ because that mantra has been repeated ad nauseum, and repetition is effective at bypassing objective reasoning and convince people of things that are not true. “ After I gave him examples of having an abusive father, being grabbed and groped and kissed by random men at my places of employment (even as a teenager) and watching women I loved stay in abusive marriages and relationships because they feared for their own lives and those of their children, he called them „strawman arguments.“ He needs to be featured on that podcast, „This Fucking Guy“ because the shit is says on Nextdoor is hard to believe unless you see it for yourself.
„Give it back to the states for them to decide“
*state voters decide to keep abortion*
„No not like that. You don’t know what you want.“
Missouri’s GOP-dominated state legislature has a long history of overturning voter initiatives.
It’s almost like they don’t actually respect their constituents.
“We will let the voters decide. States rights!”
“No, not like that.”
Even Ray Charles saw this coming.
It works sometimes. I’m a Missourian and [keep track of anti-democratic actions of Republicans across the country](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JdePKr5Tf4ZXGg3p0Z9l7E8wXhja_Ry6Pw85sphp2m8/edit?usp=sharing). I don’t think there’s any state which so consistently votes for progressive measures, and then elects politicians who want to do the exact opposite.
**Abortion Rights**
In 2024, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment to protect abortion.
* When the amendment went on the ballot, Republicans tried to [scuttle it by using confusing ballot language which the courts blocked](https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/09/05/missouri-judge-rules-that-abortion-rights-amendment-language-november-ballot-is-misleading/).
* Missouri Republicans are busy trying to undermine this by [putting it back on the ballot, agian with misleading language](https://missouriindependent.com/2025/04/30/missouri-senate-vote-proposed-abortion-ban-constitutional-amendment/).
* Since Missouri Republicans have gotten slapped down for using misleading ballot language in the past (see below), Republicans are [now trying to prevent courts from being able to stop them](https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-04-15/missouri-legislature-passes-bill-limiting-court-involvement-with-ballot-language).
**Minimum Wage**
Also in 2024, Missouri voters passed an increase in the minimum wage, tie-minimum wage to inflation, and mandate sick-leave and family-leave for certain workers.
* Republicans have been [busy trying to figure out how to undermine or repeal this](https://missouriindependent.com/2025/02/05/missouri-republicans-consider-delaying-voter-approved-minimum-wage-hike-paid-sick-leave/).
**CLEAN Act**
Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment that included ethics reform (limiting lobbyist gifts, lengthened the amount of time between leaving the legislature and becoming a lobbyist, expanded sunshine law to all state legislators) and would prevent gerrymandering (using a non-partisan commission to create maps that ensured partisan fairness and competitiveness, contiguousness, compactness, and followed clearly established city or county boundaries instead of chopping them up). This was approved by over 62% of the voters.
* Republicans first [tried to gut the rules](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/voters-in-missouri-approved-ethics-reform-republican-lawmakers-are-now/article_33d88e7b-08f9-5f9f-b658-5a45ba43eee6.html). This failed.
* Republicans then tried to [put a bill to remove it back on the ballot under the cover of COVID-19](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article242407526.html) and using such biased language that [it was rejected by the courts](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cole-county-judge-tosses-ballot-language-for-gop-backed-repeal-of-clean-missouri/article_0becec62-5612-583f-bd79-b00d3c371139.html). [Twice](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/appeals-court-rules-against-republican-bid-to-overturn-clean-missouri-redistricting-plan/article_b1f67099-784b-5bfd-ad22-c4759cbcf5db.html).
* Finally in 2020, Republicans got it on the ballot. This got rid of the non-partisan commission, and again changed the criteria used to draw maps to allow Republicans to gerrymander. To get people to vote for it, they made insignificant changes to campaign finances (lowering the contribution limit by $100) so they could say this was about ethics in ~~game journalism~~ politics. This passed with 51% of the vote.
**MEDICAID Expansion**
In 2020, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment that expanded access to MEDICAID to allow the state to qualify for more federal funds. This passed by a bit over 53% of the voters.
* Republicans first tried to simply [not fund the changes](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/08/985033020/missouri-legislature-tries-to-back-out-of-voter-approved-medicaid-expansion) and just not let people enroll. After stalling for over a year and a half, [the state supreme court told them they had to](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article253390153.html) (duh).
**Right-to-Work**
Republicans passed a union busting „Right-to-Work“ bill in 2017.
* In 2018, pro-labor groups gathered enough signatures to put a measure on the ballot to overturn this. [Voters were successful with ~72% of the vote](https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636568530/missouri-blocks-right-to-work-law).
* Although Republicans haven’t been able to overturn this, they [keep saying they want to](https://www.senate.mo.gov/21web/sen-eric-burlison-continues-right-to-work-fight/).
**Puppy Mills**
It’s hard to get more cartoonishly evil than cruelty to puppies, but that’s Missouri Republicans for you. In 2010, voters passed a bill to address issues with unregulated puppy mills in the state.
* In 2011, Republicans passed modifications to this bill [gutting many of its key components](https://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=4075538).
* In 2014, Republicans proposed a constitutional amendment nicknamed the „right to farm“ which was widely supported by breeders and [recognized to include language to weaken protections further](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2014/07/24/humane-society-spends-k-beat-right-farm/13098951/).
* Since then MO Republicans [continue to try to weaken regulations](https://www.ksdk.com/article/life/animals/missouri-worst-puppy-mills-get-worse-if-new-bills-pass/63-8a4093fb-f505-4aac-aa8b-22e94c9e2242) even further.
If you notice, several of the above are constitutional amendments. Missouri voters tend to have to rely on this because it’s harder for Republicans to overturn. So what do they do? They’re trying to [make it harder for citizens to put things on the ballot](https://themissouritimes.com/house-passes-measures-to-raise-threshold-for-initiative-petitions/), as well as [change the rules for constitutional amendments, again making it harder](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article275221416.html). They’ve failed so far (MO voters are not so stupid as to vote away their own power), but Missouri Republicans have made it clear they’re [not going to give up on trying to disenfranchise Missouri voters](https://missouriindependent.com/2025/03/04/missouri-gop-renew-push-to-make-it-harder-for-voters-to-amend-the-state-constitution/).
There’s other ways Missouri Republicans are trying to subvert democracy, but the above is the most pertinent to this post.
If you’re a Missourian and are tired of this shit, support [Respect MO Voters](https://www.respectmovoters.org/).
Then don’t vote those people into power, duh
The are not leaders, they are employees.
Typical nazi behavior
Glad to see this getting national coverage finally. This fight has been going for almost 6 months now
„We’ll leave it to the states“ said the people actively trying to claw back on people’s freedoms. This is such a tiring fight. It’s a necessary one, but I’m so tired of arguing with people who want to go back to the 1800s. Reproductive healthcare is such an important thing. Taking it away from people causes significant harm to the population, extending far beyond just women’s health. Hospitals will (and already have) shut down out of fear of repurcussion from the law
Stop politicizing women’s bodies
Missouri’s the same state far-right U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is from. He’s not mentioned in this article, but it seems Missouri has issues with far-right politicians. Is ignoring the will of the people a far-right value?