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ANNAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) – The Maryland House of Delegates voted 98-38 Thursday to place before voters a state constitutional amendment that would establish a state-level “right” to abortion next year.
The proposed Maryland Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment would add language to the Maryland Constitution declaring that “every person, as a central component of an individual’s rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including but not limited to the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy,” which government cannot, “directly or indirectly, deny, burden, or abridge” without a “compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
The Associated Press reports that with the House vote, both chambers of the state legislature have approved the amendment by a three-fifths margin, clearing it to appear on the 2024 ballot, where it will need a simple-majority vote to become law.
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