Mon Sep 26, 2022 – 6:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Abortion friends and foes alike in five states have prepared ballot initiatives for the fall midterm elections to set new rules around abortions in the new legal landscape established by Roe v. Wade.
According to an overview by Axios, California, Michigan, and Vermont residents will vote on proposed amendments to their state constitutions that would enshrine a state-level “right” to legal abortion.
When the U.S. Supreme Court recognized in June’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the U.S. Constitution “makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” it restored states’ ability to decide their own abortion laws. Pro-abortion activists hope to prevent state legislatures from doing so by establishing new “rights” to abortion in state constitutions.
Kentucky, by contrast, will vote on a proposed amendment with the opposite effect: clarifying that its constitution does not “secure or protect a right to abortion, or require the funding of abortion.” Despite the Dobbs ruling, abortion allies have gone to court to try to block pro-life laws from taking effect in the Bluegrass State.
And Montana is putting to voters
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