Beetem rejects Ashcroft's 'problematic' summary of abortion

A Cole County judge rewrote the ballot titles for six initiative petitions seeking to enshrine the right to abortion in the Missouri Constitution, ruling that 13 phrases in the summaries written by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft are "argumentative" or unfairly biased.

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