A Missouri judge says an abortion rights campaign didn't meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot.

A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot, potentially thwarting a yearslong effort to undo the state’s near-total abortion ban.

A Missouri judge on Friday ruled against an abortion rights measure set for the November ballot, a decision that throws the proposal’s fate into uncertainty.

But abortion rights groups hope an appeals court will reverse the ruling before the Tuesday deadline to print the state ballots.

Mary Catherine Martin, an attorney with the Thomas Moore Society, represented a group of Missouri anti-abortion lawmakers and activists Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, during a trial at the Cole County Courthouse (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent) A Missouri judge ruled Friday evening that a reproductive-rights amendment did not comply with state initiative petition requirements,

The ruling by Circuit Court Judge Christopher Limbaugh comes just days before the Sept. 10 statutory deadline for finalizing ballots for the Nov. 5 election.

A campaign to ask Missouri voters to make abortions legal again has won another court battle. A Cole County judge says Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s wording to describe an abortion rights proposal is “unfair,

A Missouri judge faces a Tuesday deadline to decide whether to take the rare step of pulling an abortion-rights amendment off

A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot.