GOP with 'nothing to lose' resorts to 'absurd ploy' after losing major votes

Republicans in Missouri saw their state's abortion ban overturned by a popular referendum last year, the latest in a long line of red states where voters rejected extreme prohibitions on the procedure. But Republicans are now resorting to an "absurd" ploy to pressure voters into voting on an amendment that would effectively reverse their previous decision — and it has insulting echoes of decades of extreme anti-women tactics by abortion restrictionists, wrote Mary Ziegler for Slate.

The new amendment the GOP is pushing...