Missouri voters overturned the state’s abortion ban on Tuesday, enshrining a right to reproductive freedom into the state constitution in a historic election that served as a rebuke of Republican lawmakers who spent decades restricting abortion access.

Missourians voted to protect abortion-rights in their state’s constitution, the first time voters have invalidated a near-total abortion ban in a deep-red state. The ballot measure, which amends the state constitution to make most abortions legal,

Missouri voters bucked Republicans who control the state on Tuesday when they voted to add the right to abortion and other reproductive health care protections in the state constitution by passing Amendment 3.