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A Missouri judge ruled a Republican-backed plan to ban most abortions can appear on the ballot next year.

The judge ordered the ballot language to be rewritten to clearly state its intent to ban abortion.

If passed, the measure would repeal a reproductive rights amendment approved by voters in the 2024 election.

The Republican plan to ban most abortions in Missouri can go before voters next year but the ballot title must plainly say its intent, a Cole County judge ruled Friday, Sept. 19.

The decision from Circuit Judge Daniel Green concluded that lawmakers properly combined bans on gender-affirming treatments for minors with reproductive rights in the proposed constitutional amendment but misled voters with the ballot language.

Quoting a Western District Court of

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