Abortion rights groups look to build on their victories with new ballot measures<\/p>\n
Energized by a perfect record on ballot measures<\/a> in last month\u2019s midterm elections, abortion-rights groups are setting their sights on more victories over the next two years.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC news<\/a><\/p>\n After string of abortion-rights wins, conservatives look to curtail the ballot measure process<\/p>\n Republican-led legislatures are mounting an increasingly fierce battle to curb the ability of citizens and other lawmakers to place ballot measures<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a move progressive groups say is explicitly aimed at making it difficult to give voters in red and purple states direct say over major issues such as abortion rights.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC news<\/a><\/p>\n Ballot measures saved abortion rights in the wake of Roe \u2014 now they\u2019re in danger<\/p>\n But the opportunity window to use ballot measures to codify abortion rights is already closing, unless we take urgent action. Anti-abortion conservatives are not only trying to limit abortion by passing cruel and extreme bans<\/a> through gerrymandered legislatures<\/a>, they are working to eliminate the use of citizen-led ballot measures entirely<\/a> \u2014 denying voters the ability to decide this issue themselves.<\/p>\n Read more at The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n How Republicans are trying to block voters from having a say on abortion<\/p>\n \u201cThe instinct from conservative lawmakers to make it harder for their voters to decide on the core issues that matter to them most is fundamentally an assault on voting rights,\u201d says Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that supports progressive ballot initiatives in red and purple states. \u201cThose lawmakers know their ideological views are out of sync with their voters [and] they are trying to change the rules of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abortion rights groups look to build on their victories with new ballot measures Energized by a perfect record on ballot measures in last month\u2019s midterm elections, abortion-rights groups are setting their sights on more victories over the next two years. Read more at NBC news After string of abortion-rights wins, conservatives look to curtail the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-ballot-initiative-measures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}