Last night, Missouri was among the ten states where voters cemented reproductive rights in state constitutions. More than two years after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion,

Less than 24 hours after the polls closed, a lawsuit was filed after the passage of Amendment 3 in MissouriMissourians voted yes on Amendment 3, but the fight over abortion access doesn’t end there. Amendment 3 was put on the ballot by initiative petition,

When it goes into effect in December, Amendment 3 will protect abortion up to what’s known as fetal viability — which is about 24 weeks of pregnancy.