Posted on 11/09/2022 9:09:06 AM PST by Morgana
Aborting viable, late-term unborn babies for any reason is now a “right” in the Vermont Constitution.
On Tuesday, state voters approved Proposal 5, a pro-abortion constitutional amendment, on the ballot by a massive margin, with 72 percent in favor, the VT Digger reports. According to election results, 22 percent voted against the amendment and 6 percent did not vote.
Most expected the amendment to pass in the deeply Democratic state. Abortions already are legal for basically any reason up to birth in Vermont, but the amendment will stop the state legislature from enacting any limits in the future.
“We knew it was an uphill battle to actually be able to successfully share the truth of what the ramifications of this amendment would be,” said Rep. Anne Donahue, R-Northfield, who opposed the amendment. “I still believe that if Vermonters really understood the implications, they would not have supported it.”
Polls consistently show that a strong majority of Americans oppose late-term abortions, but the amendment did not make it clear to voters that it will allow late-term abortion on demand.
It states, “That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
Disturbingly, state Democrat leaders “roared and whooped” for joy late Tuesday after learning that Vermont will continue to allow abortions up to birth.
Here’s more from the report:
The amendment had the full-throated support of the Vermont Democratic Party and its most high-profile officeholders and candidates, who, like their national counterparts, sought to make abortion a top issue in this election. At the party’s election night party at Hula in Burlington, the room roared and whooped after party chair Anne Lezak announced the amendment’s passage minutes after 9 p.m.
“So many of you stepped up and knocked on doors and went to rallies and contributed and talked to your neighbors and made sure that people were not bamboozled by the ridiculous falsehoods we heard,” Lezak said. “And this just makes me very, very proud of all of us.”
The Vermont Right to Life Committee and state Catholic leaders spent months warning voters about how extreme the amendment will be, according to the Catholic News Agency.
This amendment “promises to enshrine unlimited, unregulated abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in our state’s founding document” and “would permanently block any attempt to protect the unborn — even those who can survive outside the womb,” the Diocese of Burlington wrote in a bulletin published just prior to the vote.
But pro-abortion groups spent a lot of money to flood voters with advertisements promoting the amendment and received a lot of friendly news coverage. Those fighting to pass the amendment included the ACLU of Vermont, the League of Women Voters of Vermont, Alliance for a Better Vermont and Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund, according to VT Digger.
California and Michigan voters also passed pro-abortion amendments to their state constitutions Tuesday.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous Roe v. Wade ruling in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and returned the abortion issue to voters. Now, more than a dozen states are enforcing laws that protect unborn babies from abortion and more are fighting in court to do so. New research estimates up to 10,000 unborn babies already have been saved from abortion as a result.
So typical of Vermont.
Now begins the fight for 4th trimester abortion.
Perhaps if the gopE had gotten on board with terminations legal up to age 18 they could have done better yesterday. Guess inflation(whatever that is), crime(non existent?) weren’t/aren’t an issue after all. 😯
94% white Vermont voted to make sure nonwhites in their state abort their kids.
There’s no way we can compete with the fanaticism of the baby murdering monsters. It’s cultic in nature and coupled with the degeneracy/sin of homosexuality, is guaranteed to bring this nation down. (See my tagline.)
“Now begins the fight for 4th trimester abortion.”
I’m actually shocked that was not passed last night.
Just about time for God to push that big reset button...
Dare I say that in response to such laws it is acceptable to save the lives of these infants by any means necessary? No one can argue that we are debating about “clumps of cells” or “the life of the mother” or “fetus not compatible with life” or “rape” or “incest”. Their mask is off. They are clear in their intent. KILLING BABIES FOR NO REASON EXCEPT THEY DON’T WANT IT.
What we have is the right for serial murder to be given the protection of law. How would such murders of a 6 year old be met? Would they deserve such protection? No.
By kindergarten, a parent should know if they’re a keeper or not.
Such a beautiful state that is infested with too many ugly souled godless inhabitants.
What greater power can one have than the killing of the most innocent and helpless without consequence. The progs LOVE killing babies.
The blue states get more evil in the disunted states of America.
It’s their unholy blood sacrament they hold near and dear.
Vermont Electorate to The Lord:
"We Double Dare You!"
1) Inflation was caused mostly because government gave them what they asked for and they don't want that taken away.
2) The people involved in the massive crime wave don't exist, because to admit they exist would be racist.
Everybody wanted the states to decide....and Vermont just did.
In ancient Rome the standard for protecting the young from being killed was “reaching the age of reason” which was loosely considered to be around 4 years of age.
We are regressing in that direction.
p
I read an article not too long ago defending abortion as just an extension of the age-old tradition of leaving deformed babies out in the woods somewhere.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.