Abortion on the ballot? Not if these Republican lawmakers can help it

[onthedarkside]

 

Oklahoma’s leading anti-abortion group is pushing GOP lawmakers to loosen the state’s near-total ban.

 

In a recent letter to legislators, Oklahomans for Life Chair Tony Lauinger argued that if they don’t amend the state’s anti-abortion law to add exceptions for rape and incest, there is a real chance a citizen-led ballot initiative to make all abortion legal will eventually succeed.

 

His efforts, which other lawmakers and anti-abortion groups have slammed as immoral and politically naive, are the latest example of the national scramble to prevent voters from restoring abortion access by popular vote.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/19/abortion-on-the-ballot-not-if-these-republican-lawmakers-can-help-it-00087688

 

[bamnutsak]

SCOTUS, with Dobbs says to let the states decide on abortion rights.

 

Republican ruled states say, "not so fast".

 

Who could have seen that coming?

 

From the linked article...

 

Legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma are debating bills this session that would hike the filing fees, raise the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, restrict who can collect signatures, mandate broader geographic distribution of signatures, and raise the vote threshold to pass an amendment from a majority to a supermajority. While the bills vary in wording, they would have the same impact: limiting voters’ power to override abortion restrictions that Republicans imposed, which took effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

 

Everyone hates a sore winner.

 

So much for "the will of the people".