Abortion providers moved quickly to formally challenge the state’s abortion ban and other restrictions after voters approved Amendment 3.

Amendment 3 places language in the Missouri Constitution legalizing abortion up to fetal viability, which is usually around 24 weeks. Now that the amendment passed, abortion rights proponents plan to file lawsuits to strike down the state’s near-total ban.

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,