In the 2026 elections, Missouri voters rejected a ballot measure that combined restrictions on gender transition surgeries for minors with strict abortion limits

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Law and political conflict over abortion access, contraception, fertility treatment and the medical care surrounding pregnancy in the United States. Returned largely to the states by the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs ruling, and fought since through ballot measures, legislatures and courts.