The success of abortion rights ballot initiative campaigns has convinced gerrymandered, anti-abortion legislatures that ballot measure processes must be eliminated.
reiterated that the issue should be left to “the democratic process … established by the Constitution.”gave people the right to an abortion, but the ruling still allowed states to restrict access severely. Even thoughis gone, we can build back the right to more effectively protected abortion access—but we can only do so with the democratic process fully intact.
States with extremely gerrymandered legislatures, like my home state of Ohio, cannot be trusted to reflect the will of their constituents. Now, as people voice their will when it comes to abortion—as instructed by the Supreme Court—we’re witnessing these same lopsided legislatures moving to further distort the one remaining democratic option: the ballot initiative process.In 2022,
—California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont—expressed their desire to protect abortion rights through voting on ballot initiatives in their states, further proving that even in red states, voters support protecting the right to abortion.
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