The state Supreme Court last week issued an order keeping the proposed state constitutional amendment – called Amendment 3 – on the Nov. 5 ballot. The judges’ decision came hours before a deadline to finalize the ballot and they didn’t explain their reasoning at the time.

Abortion rights remained on Missouri’s Nov. 5 ballot by the slimmest of margins, according to opinions released Friday by the Missouri Supreme Court.

Nebraska law prohibits abortion after 12 weeks, with some exceptions. One measure would effectively undo that law, while the other would codify it in the state’s constitution.

Missouri voters will decide on Nov. 5 whether to overturn the state’s abortion ban after the state Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared away a final effort by anti-abortion activists to block a vote on a landmark proposal enshrining a right to abortion in the state constitution.

If passed in November by Missouri voters, the initiative would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution.

Missouri's high court ruled to keep a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights on the ballot in November.

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot.

Nebraska’s Supreme Court ruled that competing abortion rights measures can be on the ballot in November, allowing voters to choose between expanding the right to abortion or codifying a 12-week ban into the state constitution.