Supporters of Amendment 3 celebrate on Sept. 10 on the steps of the Missouri Capitol after the state Supreme Court ruled the abortion-rights measure could remain on the ballot (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent).
You don’t argue one thing in a lawsuit and the opposite thing in a different lawsuit.
It undermines the integrity of the judicial system. And it’s unfair.
And yet, as I predicted , Attorney General Andrew Bailey has completely flip flopped on his interpretation of Amendment 3 — the ballot initiative that Missouri voters just approved to make legal abortion available in this state.
The Amendment 3 campaign had to sue the state twice over inflammatory ballot language that claimed it would mean abortion would be completely unregulated in Missouri.
In the first lawsuit (there were five lawsuits over Amendment 3, I’m only going to deal with two of them here), the state defended a flagrantly inaccurate ballot summary from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft that claimed the ballot initiative would result in: “unregulated, and unrestricted abortions until live birth, without requiring a medical license or potentially being subject to malpractice.”