Missourians have one week left to help get abortion rights on the ballot
Missourians who believe that women have an inalienable right to decide what happens inside their own bodies could be forgiven for browsing the news last week and lamenting that that urgent cause looks increasingly hopeless.
In Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court debated, in all seriousness, whether emergency rooms can be required by federal law to provide medically stabilizing treatment to all patients who come in rather than waiting until their conditions become life-threatening.
The case spotlights an Idaho anti-abortion law so onerous that pregnant women in dire medical straits are literally being airlifted — like war refugees — to other states for care.
In Jefferson City, meanwhile, legislators advanced a measure plainly designed to dilute the votes of Missourians from regions most likely to support abortion rights.
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-missourians-have-one-week-left-to-help-get-abortion-rights-on-the-ballot/article_141c30b8-03ed-11ef-aace-0bf72125e3bf.html
