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Jason Rosenbaum

Missouri's strict abortion ban could change. Even a GOP-led group thinks it should.

Jamie Corley, pictured at her University City, Mo. home on Sept. 27, says the state's strict abortion ban is "draconian." Corley, a Republican, says adding exceptions for rape and incest shouldn't be partisan. (Tristen Rouse/St. Louis Public Radio)

Minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, Missouri's Attorney General announced a trigger law would go into effect, making the state's abortion ban one of the strictest in the nation.

Its only exceptions are for medical emergencies that threaten the life of the pregnant person.

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