Conservatives try to stop the bleeding on abortion ballot measures

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Conservatives try to stop the bleeding on abortion ballot measures
by Breccan F. Thies, Investigative Reporter
December 22, 2023 08:00 AM

As more states have passed ballot measures expanding access to abortion, conservative lawmakers and activists have been trying to mitigate the damage by passing laws to govern them and filing lawsuits to challenge them.

Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, legal abortion activists have successfully ushered along state constitutional amendments that supersede laws restricting abortions in several states.

Many of those amendments have been written vaguely by activists, opponents say, which gives the amendments expansive power and opens them to a wide range of interpretation, such as including phrases such as "reproductive freedom" that could extend legal protections to sex-change operations.

While Democrats in several states have advanced laws ensuring that sex-change interventions have explicit legal protection, Republicans in Ohio, Michigan, and Kansas have been trying to counter the expansion of such laws beyond abortion access by passing laws that weaken the scope and implementation of the amendments.

These legislative counters come as at least 11 states could see similar measures on their ballots in the 2024 general election.

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[Fishrrman]

For the Pubbies, this is a losing game.
The leftists OWN the issue now, post-Dobbs.

They'll milk it for every last vote they can get, and come back with ballot initiatives again, and again, that being "the magnet" that draws leftist women to the polls.