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A Missouri judge has ordered the Secretary of State to rewrite ballot language for a proposed abortion amendment.

The judge ruled the current language is "insufficient and unfair" because it fails to state it would repeal a voter-approved abortion rights measure.

The judge approved other parts of the ballot summary, including language about parental consent and a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins must try again to write ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban most abortions, a Cole County judge ruled Tuesday, Sept. 30.

Circuit Judge Daniel Green, in his second ruling on the ballot description of the measure proposed by lawmakers, said that Hoskins got most of the language right.

But Ho

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