Along historic Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri, L. Arconati collected signatures from voters April 27, 2024, hoping to put an initiative on the ballot that would create a right to abortion in Missouri. Arconati asked KFF Health News not to publish her first name because of harassment she’s received after past media interviews. , Kunce accuses Hawley of jeopardizing reproductive care, including in vitro fertilization.
Abortion is such a salient issue in Arizona, for example, that election analysts say a U.S. House seat occupied by Republican On a late-April Saturday along historic Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri, people holding makeshift clipboards fashioned from yard signs from past elections invited locals strolling brick sidewalks to sign a petition to get the initiative on Missouri ballots. Nearby, diners enjoyed lunch on a patio tucked under a canopy of trees in this affluent St. Louis suburb. fell; it is outlawed except in “cases of medical emergency.” The measure would add the right to abortion to the state constitution.
Jim Seidel, 64, who lives in Wright City, 50 miles west of St. Louis, also signed the petition. He said he believes Missourians deserve the opportunity to vote on the issue. Larry Bax’s concern goes beyond abortion and the ballot measure in Missouri. He worries about more governmental limits on reproductive care, such as on IVF or birth control. “How much further can that reach extend?” he said. Kunce is banking on enough voters feeling like Bax and Seidel to get an upset similar to the one that occurred in 2012 for the same seat — also over abortion.