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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri will formally kick off its signature-gathering effort on Tuesday, one that could come down to the wire. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom as of Tuesday will have 90 days to collect the roughly 185,000 signatures that could be necessary to make the ballot — or more than 2,000 valid signatures per day. Past successful signature-gathering efforts — such as the 2020 campaign to expand Medicaid and the 2022 effort to legalize recreational marijuana — had begun canvassing earlier in the election cycle. But the abortion campaign c…

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