Posted on 08/13/2024 4:30:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total ban.
The secretary of state’s office certified Tuesday that an initiative petition received more than enough valid signatures from registered voters to qualify for the general election. It will need approval from a majority of voters to become enshrined in the state constitution.
If passed, the Missouri initiative would “do something that no other state has done before — end a total abortion ban at the ballot box,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, which is sponsoring the measure with significant financial support from Planned Parenthood affiliates and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Missouri will join at least a half-dozen states voting on abortion rights during the presidential election. Arizona’s secretary of state certified an abortion-rights measure for the ballot on Monday. Measures also will go before voters in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota. While not explicitly addressing abortion rights, a New York ballot measure would bar discrimination based on “pregnancy outcomes” and “reproductive healthcare,” among other things. …
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This will bring out the women dem voters. This was on ballot for Michigan few years ago along with a medical mj issue and voters came out in droves.
Missouri is Pro Life and Pro Trump.
This initiative will go down in flames and help widen Trump’s margin of victory.
People said the same thing about Kansas and Ohio.
It’s better for the blood of the unborn to be on the hands of the voters than a handful of judges.
I don’t see it that way. the least people enabling the murdering of babies the better.
45 states will legalize abortion if they have it on their referendums.
Maybe just Alabama and West Virginia will ban abortion, that's about it.
Meatspace, is that you?
Where you been?
You sure about that?
I see hints of fraud denial, with all due respect.
Fraud denial.
And after Doug Jones, we can probably scratch Alabama off the list.
States rights, isn’t that what we wanted?!
Fraud isn’t included in states’ rights.
I’m glad the Supreme Court is out of this issue. They never should have been arbiters.
I don’t want to see the US Congress try to pass a national law either in favor of, or opposed to, this topic. I don’t think the federal government should be involved.
I think this is a state issue.
I will definitely be disappointed in states that use fraud to tilt the game on this, or any, topic.
But if abortion ceases to be a political football at the national level, we will win. I’d like to see it banned in as many places as possible. But mostly, I’d like it to no longer be the single biggest galvanizing force the Democrats have.
Then it needs to be legalized in 80% of our states. We're almost there already. Florida will legalize abortion in November.
It does not galvanize the Democratic voters. The Uniparty is still relying on fraud.
Sad to have seen what happened here in Ohio this time last year. The “hoard” was unleashed to the ballot box in emotional rage to knock a hole in our state’s constitution in favor of destroying the womb \ aiding and embedding trans kids.. fueled by propaganda and fear mongering the likes I had never seen.
I tried to breakdown the lies to folks but the hive mind was in full gear. A foolish attempt on my part that just ended with with an angry mob of feminists with death stares. I advised that they weren’t interested in the truth and to find Jesus.
Just insane and may God have mercy.
How many of those voters were legitimate?
I’ve thought about this and the cities ruled the vote in favor.
Michigan is nothing but a fraud state since 2020.
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