JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (News First) – A judge on Thursday said an anti-abortion republican official from Missouri used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the Show-Me State. Cole County Circuit Judge Cotton Walker threw out a description of the measure as written by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft. Walker wrote his language instead.
In Missouri, ballot language is displayed at polls to help voters understand what they’re voting on. Ashcroft’s ballot language claimed the measure would legalize abortion at any time during pregnancy and prohibit any abortion regulations. It would not have. Judges have previously ruled that the amendment would allow lawmakers to enact restrictions after fetal viability.
