Abortion initiatives in Missouri and Arizona will effectively ask voters to allow no restrictions on ending the lives of unborn children.
Missouri and Arizona on Tuesday joined the list of states with abortion initiatives on the Nov. 5 ballot. Now, voters will decide pro-abortion measures in a total of eight states, the most on record in a single year: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota.
The ballot measures in both Arizona and Missouri ask voters whether they wish to amend their state constitution to allow abortions. Both include a wide-ranging “health of the mother” clause—or in these cases, “health of the pregnant person” or “pregnant individual”—that would make it legally and practically impossible to pass laws restricting abortion.
Missouri’s ballot measure, titled “The Right to Reproductive…
