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Part of what makes Missouri attractive, according to Hall, is that the state is “smack dab in the middle of the country that many progressives think is so dark red. In a state that many progressives and Democrats have written off, it’s an incredibly attractive moment to show both the power of direct democracy..."

“Ballot measures really enable voters to isolate a particular issue and the values that they hold around that issue, and maintain their other partisan identities,” Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project.

“Rather than fulfilling their constitutional roles to be stewards of a ballot measure process in which voters get to decide issues of fundamental rights for themselves,” Hall told me, “anti-abortion politicians abuse their power to try to impose their own beliefs on the entire state.”

Working to pass these ballot initiatives is the Fairness Project, a group that was involved with 2022 and 2023 abortion victories in Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont. This cycle, the group is working with the ballot campaigns in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Montana by providing technical and strategic support and at least $15 million in funding.

“It’s really hard to overstate how powerful this strategy has proven to be,” said Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, a nonpartisan group that supports ballot measures.

The governor and others on the panel celebrated a Democratic presidential ticket that openly talks about the need for more protective laws since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Other panelists included Kelly Hall, Executive Director, Fairness Project.

“At every turn, opponents of reproductive freedom and the right of voters to decide for themselves have challenged this grassroots, hugely popular amendment,” Kelly Hall, Executive Director of the Fairness Project, said in a statement.

This report provides the most recent updates on abortion-related ballot measure certifications and potential measures.