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    First statewide vote ...

    Kansas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly struck down a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove language enshrining reproductive rights in their state, in a move widely seen as a victory for abortion rights activists.

    The proposed amendment was the first time anywhere in the U.S. that voters cast ballots on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

    A ballot question, known as the “Value Them Both Amendment,” asked voters to decide whether the state’s Constitution should continue to protect abortion rights. The proposed amendment to the state Constitution would have removed language that guarantees reproductive rights and asked voters if they prefer to put the issue of abortion in the hands of the state’s Republican-controlled legislature — an outcome that abortion advocates said was all but certain to result in the elimination or curtailment of those rights.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...tate-rcna40550
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    Weird shit ..

    Lauren Groh-Wargo, manager of Stacey Abrams’s campaign for Georgia governor, tweeted: “So what happens when you claim your fetus as a dependent and then miscarry later in the pregnancy, you get investigated both for [possible] tax fraud and an illegal abortion?”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...pendents-fetus
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    Yeah, a pregnant woman was driving in the carpool lanes as well, saying the fetus counted as a person so she should get the carpool benefit. It's going to be strange for a long time...

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    So I guess many/most republicans think it's important to protect the unborn child but not so much once they are born?

    https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun...ildren-america


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    Ohio adds abortion rights to state constitution

    The well-organized states are getting it done- but here only needed 50%, some states may need 2/3 or so. Makes it that much harder. Pathetic that states have to do this rather than US Congress which had, what, 50 years to get this done? Just shows how useless Congress is most of the time.

    https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-issue-1-...020317813.html

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    Pathetic that states have to do this rather than US Congress which had, what, 50 years to get this done? Just shows how useless Congress is most of the time.
    I always thought that constitutional changes needed to be ratified by the state legislatures unanimously. So not really possible in any way over the last 50 years?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    I always thought that constitutional changes needed to be ratified by the state legislatures unanimously. So not really possible in any way over the last 50 years?

    Will look this up...
    Ah, yes, but I think they could have just made some federal law, not changed the US constitution-but, of course, that is possible to strike down as well. Because, let's face it, kind of is a domestic state issue. But they could have said yeah, the law relates to interstate travel (which is a federal power). So, no,no way it ever, in my lifetime, becomes a US Constitution amendment. Look up the equal rights amendment just saying women have equal rights to men or some such. Nope, we spent the entire 70s discussing that and, yeah, never happened.

    But someone clever could make a good federal law (note that these laws are almost always written by others- like lobbyists and such, the average congressman/senator has a full-time job raising money for his/her re-election campaign).

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