GOP legislatures in some states seek ways to undermine voters' ability to determine abortion rights
GOP legislatures in some states seek ways to undermine voters' ability to determine abortion rights
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio.
Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are trying to undercut democratic processes meant to give voters a direct role in forming state laws.
“They’re scared of the people and their voices, so their response is to prevent their voices from being heard," said Laurie Bertram Roberts, executive director of Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund. “There’s nothing democratic about that, and it’s the same blueprint we’ve seen in Ohio and all these other states, again and again.”
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, voters in seven states have either protected abortion rights or defeated attempts to curtail them in statewide votes. Democrats have pledged to make the issue a central campaign topic this year for races up and down the ballot.
Republican women . . . what are you doing? Why are you stealing your daughter’s right to her own body? Seriously, do you know how bad you’re messing up?
They're not stealing their daughters' rights to her own body. At least, not in their minds. They're just taking that right away from everyone else's daughters. Them? They never have to worry about that, and if they do, they'll just take a weekend trip to Canada or something to "pray over it." .
This isn't about women's rights, in their minds. It's about having power over others, at all costs.
It's not even that.
It's an emotional attachment to the idea that the right of the fetus trumps the rights of the pregnant person. It's a fundamental difference in the way abortion is viewed.
For Republican voters (not the politicians), it's a problem with fetal murder. It very much is not about bodily autonomy. They really see abortion as murder.
The politicians on the other hand... They likely see it as a way to control women and garner easy votes and therefore power.
It’s the only way they can control them once they leave the nest.
And they are stealing the peoples voice on anything, not just abortion, in some places.
State's Rights!
LoL!
Jokes on them. LawGPT is coming for their jerbs,