Scott, your logic is thwarted by the fact that efforts by states citizens working to get abortion rights put to a vote as ballot initiatives are being blocked by every measure possible by the GOP. Ohio is a perfect example:
State GOP lawmakers with the GOP Governor’s support and approval passed overly restrictive reproductive rights limitations over women’s bodies through the state congress against public opinion.
Citizens started efforts for a ballot measure supporting reproductive rights (including the right to a legal abortion).
State GOP lawmakers broke their own rule to run a pre-election to try to make passing ballot measures near impossible. Voters voted that down. The GOP effort failed.
The GOP Attorney General interceded in the abortion rights ballot measure language to make it more inflammatory. Voters, in the overwhelmingly red state, STILL voted the abortion rights measure into the State Constitution.
The GOP Governor came out claiming that the citizen lead ballot language was too permissive, and that citizens should have been willing to negotiate with the GOP government even though voters were voicing their desire for legal abortion from the start and being ignored by state legislature and the Governor.
…so you’re wrong, Scott. The GOP just plays dirty tricks at every level ignoring the will of the people, even its own voters on this issue.
The rules for getting a ballot initiative in Indiana make it basically impossible for it to even come up as a referendum here. And the gerrymander legislature made it clear how they felt when they made it illegal.
Scott, your logic is thwarted by the fact that efforts by states citizens working to get abortion rights put to a vote as ballot initiatives are being blocked by every measure possible by the GOP. Ohio is a perfect example:
…so you’re wrong, Scott. The GOP just plays dirty tricks at every level ignoring the will of the people, even its own voters on this issue.
The rules for getting a ballot initiative in Indiana make it basically impossible for it to even come up as a referendum here. And the gerrymander legislature made it clear how they felt when they made it illegal.