Posted on 10/25/2024 7:38:02 PM PDT by Morgana
San Francisco voters are poised to decide the fate of a ballot measure that would expand abortion in the city during the upcoming election.
Mayor London Breed stood alongside pro-abortion leaders at a Planned Parenthood facility in June to announce Proposition O, which Breed herself co-authored. Also called the “San Francisco Reproductive Freedom Act,” the proposition would loosen zoning laws, allowing abortion facilities to operate on any floor in a building in a non-residential zone, establish an official Department of Health website pointing pregnant women to abortion businesses, establish an “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day” in the city, and establish a “Reproductive Rights Fund” to help fund abortion.
It would also block city funding for any “reproductive health care facility” that does not commit or refer for abortions, and it would directly target the city’s pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) by using taxpayer funds to install signs outside these facilities saying they are “limited services pregnancy organizations.”
Critics of the ballot measure fear these signs would invite vandals to target these centers — a legitimate fear, as PRCs have been the victims of pro-abortion violence across the country.
City leaders say the measure is necessary to strengthen abortion against any future legislation that would limit the killing of preborn children. “We are battening down the hatches,” said Kimberly Ellis, director of the city’s Department on the Status of Women, “Because if there’s one thing we have learned from the pandemic, and from the fall of Roe v. Wade, it is that this is not a drill.”
Those campaigning against the measure include a number of pro-life groups and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
“This measure goes way beyond ‘pro-life versus pro-choice,'” stated Melanie Salazar, the executive director of the nonprofit Pro-Life San Francisco. “Prop O will discriminate against life-affirming healthcare facilities that San Francisco citizens depend on and lessen the number of services they can provide to the community.”
Prop. O needs a simple majority of votes in the November 5th election to pass.
They have been tempting Him since the 60’s with all this gay crap so why stop there?
When will there be enough slaughtered babies to make these people happy? Never.
They want to make sure wimmin are the only group of people that can legally murder another person for any reason at all.
I guess London does not intend to breed
Next step, forced abortions for all pregnancies.
Insane.
Sure seems that way.
I vote in S.F., and of course I’m voting NO on this. However, any pro-abortion measure on an S.F. ballot has an approximately 100% chance of passage.
A measure like this can’t be defeated at the ballot box in San Francisco. The pro-life pregnancy centers in S.F. will end up having to make 1st amendment challenges in court against the measure’s the pro-abortion signage requirements.
I believe it was Pope Paul VI who said something along the lines of once abortion is legalized, sooner or later they will make it mandatory.
I wonder the mayor react if someone were to to dump a bucket of blood or red paint in front of city hall.
Just posted this a few minutes ago:
“From what I see many women must think birth control is much more difficult to use than it is to have an abortion.”
San Francisco ballot amendment decoded DON’T LET LIBERALS BREED.
Well, the text of the proposition states that “DPH shall install the signage in the public right of way at or near the entrance to the facility.” A lot of going to depend on how that sign placement works out in the real world. If the sign is on premises owned or leased by center, then it starts to look like compelled speech. If the sign is on a public sidewalk, then the city probably gets away with it. We’ll see.
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