Missouri Supreme Court deals a blow to secretary of state's ballot language on abortion
Missouri Supreme Court deals a blow to secretary of state's ballot language on abortion
The Missouri Supreme Court has turned away an appeal about how to word a ballot question on access to abortion.
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has proposed asking voters whether they are in favor of allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.”
What a dumbass.
It's a fun twist to see GOP campaign logic dumped on their head. Ten years ago the specter of abortion got the religious fundies to the polls with monotonous regularity. Now that Roe was struck down, abortion rights on the ballot leads to clear Democratic victories.
43On the bright side, Republicans already tried fucking with the language in Ohio, and we all saw how well that went.
Give it up, you troglodytes. Nobody wants your anti-choice bullshit.
30Nobody wants your anti-choice bullshit.
A majority of Americans favor regulations limiting access to abortion.
-14Too bad Republicans are incapable of controlling themselves, and want to completely ban abortions -- either explicitly or implicitly (6 week bans, when you can only just start to detect pregnancy). That majority you describe wants limitations to a legally accessible procedure.
I'm afraid Republicans have turned this into a debate of if abortion should be legal at all, not if it should have restrictions. And when you insist that a young girl, barely a teenager, gives birth to an incest baby? Kinda hard to think Republicans want any exceptions.
So yeah, Republicans are anti choice, and a majority of Americans don't like that bullshit, as shown in the article that your shared.
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This argument makes zero sense. Wouldn't a legal abortion tend to have more regulation then an illegal abortion, or for those in the know a back ally abortion? And the gall to back it up with intention to be the clearest explanation on the ballot, what a douche nozzle.
24The problem is that they don't want abortions to be safe, rare, and legal. They want abortions to be non-existent. If women need to go to back alleys where some guy with a hanger will perform a dangerous abortion on them, then "that's their punishment for having sex."
They ignore that some women get abortions after being raped - when they literally had no choice in sex occuring. (Or, they blame the woman for the rape ala "she shouldn't have been drinking and shouldn't have worn that dress, it's all her fault.") They also ignore that some women WANT to have the baby, but things go wrong during the pregnancy and the choices are either abortion or carry a dead/dying fetus inside them until they both die.
The details don't matter. All that matters is that they control women's lives (and likely deaths).
16when dark comedy just isn't funny
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Why'd they have to put a picture of him in the article?
I'm trying to eat here.
7This is the best summary I could come up with:
Missouri lawmakers have already banned abortion except in cases of medical emergency, but proponents of broader access to the procedure are seeking to put a question about it directly before voters next year.
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has proposed asking voters whether they are in favor of allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.”
Ashcroft, who is running for governor in 2024, said his wording “fairly and accurately reflects the scope and magnitude” of each of the six proposed abortion rights ballot measures.
“My responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure the people of Missouri have ballot language that they can understand and trust,” Ashcroft said in a news release.
Earlier this month, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care.
There are efforts to protect or expand access in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and South Dakota; and to restrict it in Iowa, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
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2So this would allow safe, regulated abortions and also allow dangerous, unregulated abortions after live birth. That's a little extreme for me. I can't support post-birth abortions.
-7I also hate post-birth abortions which is why I don't like people shooting up my kid's school.
11allow dangerous, unregulated abortions after live birth
This is not a thing that exists.
1I'm shocked to learn this!
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