A Missouri judge says an abortion rights campaign didn't meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot.

Just a few days before even courts could not make a change to the November ballot, a group of abortion opponents made their case in front of a judge to remove Amendment Three from the Missouri ballot.

A Missouri judge on Friday ruled against an abortion rights measure set for the November ballot, a decision that throws the proposal’s fate into uncertainty.

But abortion rights groups hope an appeals court will reverse the ruling before the Tuesday deadline to print the state ballots.

Missouri’s ACLU branch, local Planned Parenthoods and a group called Abortion Action in Missouri launched a campaign to legalize abortion in response to the ban. Although women who receive abortions are protected from criminal liability in Missouri, anyone who performs an abortion outside the state’s limited exceptions faces felony charges.

The ruling by Circuit Court Judge Christopher Limbaugh comes just days before the Sept. 10 statutory deadline for finalizing ballots for the Nov. 5 election.

A Missouri judge ruled Friday evening that a reproductive-rights amendment did not comply with state initiative petition requirements, leaving the door open to potentially withhold it from the November ballot.

A Missouri judge faces a Tuesday deadline to decide whether to take the rare step of pulling an abortion-rights amendment off

A campaign to ask Missouri voters to make abortions legal again has won another court battle. A Cole County judge says Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s wording to describe an abortion rights proposal is “unfair,