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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft decertified Amendment 3 from the November election ballot on Monday. The amendment, if passed, would provide constitutional protection for abortion in Missouri. In decertifying the amendment, Ashcroft cited a lower court’s ruling on a suit that was issued late Friday out of Cole County, saying the amendment was invalid because it did not include which laws would be repealed if passed.The decertification sets Amendment 3 up for a state supreme court showdown with a tight turnaround – the deadline to place a measure on the absentee ballot before printing in Missouri comes at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Backers of the amendment argue it would not repeal laws but instead create a new law and supersede much of the original legislation on the books. Thomas More Society attorney Mary Catherine Martin on Friday argued that the campaign to restore abortion rights in Missouri drafted an amendment that is intentionally broad in order to trick voters into supporting it.They have not treated the voters with the respect that the Constitution requires, Martin told reporters after the trial.Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the abortion rights campaign, said the lawsuit is an attempt to block voters from enacting the amendment at the polls.Out-of-touch politicians and the special interest groups who hold influence over them are making a last-ditch effort to prevent Missourians from exercising their constitutional right to direct democracy, lawyer Tori Schafer said.Martin said, if adopted, the Missouri measure could undo the state’s bans on human cloning, genital mutilation and gender-affirming surgeries for children. She said at least some voters would not have signed the petition to put the amendment on the ballot if they had known about all the laws that could be repealed.Why would you hide that you are going to open the frontier of reproductive health care in Missouri if you have the confidence that people are still going to sign the petition? Martin said.Loretta Haggard, another lawyer for the abortion rights campaign, said assuming that the measure would repeal bans on cloning and genital mutilation which are not mentioned in the amendment is extreme speculation.Haggard said it will be up to future judges to decide which abortion laws are thrown out if the amendment is adopted. She pointed to provisions in the measure that allow restrictions on abortion after fetal viability, for example.The term is used by health care providers to describe whether a pregnancy is expected to continue developing normally or whether a fetus might survive outside the uterus. It is generally considered to be around 23 or 24 weeks into pregnancy but has shifted earlier with medical advances.Missouri banned most abortions immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. There is an exception for medical emergencies, but almost no abortions have occurred at Missouri facilities since then.The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in this case starting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, with a decision expected before the 5 p.m. deadline. The Associated Press contributed to this report.