Maybe “leaving it to the states” is a decision pro-choice voters can get behind — for now, at least.
Even more importantly: after decisive wins not just in Kentucky, but in Vermont, California, Michigan, and Montana, advocates are increasingly optimistic that there is a clear roadmap to claw back access in a number of states where it is currently banned. At least one organization is now working with that explicit mission — assisting efforts to restore access via popular referendums — in mind. Families United for Freedom, founded by Dr.
What last week’s election results proved is that voters — even in the reddest states — are broadly supportive of reproductive freedom, even as the lawmakers they have sent to their state legislatures are not. “More than anything, what these ballot referendums have shown is how out of sync many state lawmakers and state houses are with their constituents,” Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson tellsBallot measures, McGill-Johnson says, “have always been part of our strategy.
Today, abortion is banned outright in 11 states. Six of those states — Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota — allow citizens to propose a statute or constitutional amendment if they collect enough signatures. But many states where abortion is severely restricted or endangered lack a citizen-initiated process: Texas, for example, requires a two-thirds vote in each legislative chamber to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
Republican lawmakers who strong-armed abortion bans into law may have been surprised by Tuesday’s results, but what those results showed is that abortion is even more popular than many Democrats realized — including some whoIn every single state where it was on the ballot, abortion
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