This amendment reverses the reproductive rights Missouri voters passed in 2024.

• Locks in limits and hands politicians a toolbox to keep tightening the screws on women's reproductive rights at any time.

• Twelve-week cap plus reporting requirement for rape or incest. The survivor is forced to jump through extra hoops before getting care: first report the assault to law enforcement, then get official documentation proving it was reported.

• Special admitting requirements, licensing traps and hyper-regulation under the guise of "health & safety" which shuts down clinics.

• It bans abortions based on disability diagnosis, second-guessing private decisions between parents and physicians.

• Sneaks in anti-trans lanuage by lumping in gender-transition procedures which is already illegal in Missouri. It's ballot candy.

• Expand the initiative and referendum petition process - making it a citizen's fundamental right

• Allow courts to revise ballot language to be clear, true and unbiased through lawsuits.

• Preserve the existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative & referendum petitions.

• Prevents politicians to put an issue back on the ballot that citizens have already voted into law.

• Defend majority rule by requiring approval from 80% of both chambers to send any changes back for a vote of the people.

• Prevents politicians from restricting the initiative petition process that Missourians have had since 1908.

• Keeps the power with Missouri voters. Regular folks stay in the driver's seat, and big donors don't get the keys.

• Establish a permanent public endowment fund

• Creates an endowment fund but provides no revenue source to finance it - leaving taxpayers to fill the gap.

• Diverts money away from public schools, higher education, healthcare, corrections, and many other essential programs - with no surplus available.

• The legislature would be forced to redirect taxpayer dollars - ties Missouri's financial future to Wall Street and the profits of America's largest corporations.

• Current taxpayers would be financing a fund that will not benefit Missourians for generations.

• Caps withdrawals at 3% annually - keeping large amounts of taxpayer money locked away and unavailable during emergencies.

• The amendment says income tax could be eliminated & can't be re-added - but if their fund collapses, lawmakers can bring income tax back.

• That means you lose the money you paid into their fund AND still get hit with income tax again.

The hidden powers behind the "Election of County Sheriff" Amendment

• All counties already elect their sheriff but this locks sheriffs into the Constitution as a "fundamental right" - making the office harder to reform and harder to remove.

• Makes sheriffs nearly impossible to remove - removal would require a writ of quo warranto filed by the Missouri Attorney General, not local officidfals or voters.

• Gives sheriffs elevated, constitution-level authority in law enforcement - strengthening their role and limiting voters rights & flexibility.

• Shifts power upward to the Attorney General - giving unlimited authority over local sheriff removal decisions.

• Communities will not have the ability to address misconduct or mismanagement by their sheriff.

• It will shield sheriffs who misuse their authority, engage in misconduct, or fail to meet professional standards - makes it hard for communities to get transparency or accountability.

• The amendment doesn't solve a problem that current Missouri law doesn't already solve.

• Locks in a map that dilutes rural voting power by stretching districts that lump small towns into far-off urban or suburban areas. Plain version: rural communities get swallowed up by bigger ones.

• The shapes aren't about keeping counties or communities together - serving who drew the map, not Missourians.

• Cuts through natural community lines - counties, school districts, hospital service areas - making it harder for local voices to be heard.

• Prop A constitutionalizes the map. That means fixing it later becomes nearly impossible.

• Missourians deserve districts that reflect real communities with fair representation - not political strategy.

• The new map does not meet Missouri's constitution for drawing congressional and legislative districts to be compact, contiguous, and as nearly equal in population as possible.