Abortion Action Missouri 2/14/26
For Immediate Release
Contact: maggie@abortionactionmissouri.org
Voters again ready to reject another abortion ban at the ballot box later this year
Missouri, statewide: Today, February 14th 2026 marks the one- year anniversary of legal and available abortion in Missouri following the historic vote of the people to end the ban on abortion and establish rights to Reproductive Freedom. This time last year, the Jackson County Court granted a preliminary injunction to Missouri’s Planned Parenthood affiliates and the ACLU of Missouri, effectively pausing the ban on abortion and number of medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion throughout the implementation trial process. Planned Parenthood Great Plains provided the first in- clinic abortion in Missouri since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Statement from Mallory Schwarz, AAM executive director: “Missourians demanded legal and available abortion care when we became the first state to end a total ban on abortion by a vote of the people. Today marks the one year anniversary of the restoration of Missourians’ abortion rights. As we face down another political attack on abortion and personal freedom in the new Amendment 3, and we are reminded that it was everyday working Missourians that made this victory possible; it will be everyday working Missourians that lead us to victory this year when a majority of Missouri voters will again say NO to banning abortion.
People looking for accurate information about access to and support for abortion care right now can find it at INeedAnA.com and ReproLegalHelpline.org.”
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Abortion Action Missouri is the leading grassroots pro-abortion advocacy organization in Missouri and works to foster and sustain a Midwest movement for control of our bodies, lives, and futures. We envision a world with stigma-free abortion access
and reproductive freedom for all.
Paid for by Abortion Action Missouri Foundation, Allison Klinghammer, Board President, P.O. Box 63219, St. Louis, MO 63163
