Missouri Republicans were able to swiftly overturn abortion rights and paid sick leave using an uncommon procedural move, sparking outrage from Democrats and advocates who say the legislature has ignored the will of the people.
In November 2024, Missouri voters passed two major ballot initiatives: Amendment 3, which reinstated abortion rights lost after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Proposition A, which guaranteed paid sick leave for over 700,000 workers, the Missouri Independent reported.
Both passed with strong support across party lines, with Proposition A earning 58% of the vote. Since their passage, conservative lawmakers have worked to undermine or reverse the measures, citing economic concerns and ideological opposition.
“But they represent the people”.
Or, better yet - “we cannot have mere MAJORITIES of those people in the cities overriding the good people (read: white people) living in the hinterlands of the state/country - land should be just as important a factor as the number of people in a region…”
Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.
They couldn’t force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.
The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.
Hopefully they don’t pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.
Next election on the ballot.
Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.
this is definitely LAMF
Missouri voted for a Republican government.
Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?
People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.
“We the people” folks must be ready to protest right?
Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.
Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.
Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.
you can spell missouri without misery.
They just won’t let you
Wait… You guys don’t even have paid sick leave…?
We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
And people get shamed for using it.
Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it… especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
and they’ve taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it’ll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
Freedom to work while you’re sick!
Yeah, but all the millions of the temporarily-embarrassed future multi-millionaires side with the obscenely parasitic rich, because my word, they might be part of the parasitic class too some day, and just imagine if a fraction of their wealth were to go toward someone getting reasonable health care coverage w/o being tied to a business, or having decent sick leave!
I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol
Keep voting Republican, Missouri.
Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.
They are not smart people.
People still think votes matter? We lost that back in November.
Yeah, they’re afraid of the backlash of recent events. They’re nothing empathetic, or altruistic about it.
Republicans aren’t fit to govern.
Republicans aren’t fit to
governbreathe
One of the worst states in the country easily
Missouri’s main import is people from California that moved there.
mostly republicans, and good riddance too.
theres still alot upper middle class and wealthy Rs in cali, living in nearby nevada while railing on californias"wokeness" but thier business depends on california clients.
There’s a reason it sounds an awful lot like “Misery”.
Its the Florida of the midwest
Nope… Florida sucks but no where as much as MO.
Could be worse. Could be Alabama.
Arkansas
At least we have Northwest Arkansas. Missouri just has alcoholism.
