Arizona backers of abortion-rights initiative get pep talk from Michigan's governor in Phoenix visit
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's appearance shows Biden campaign stressing impact of Roe decision. Trump plans to reveal his position next week. The Biden campaign has emphasized the importance of abortion rights in its campaign following the recent Supreme Court decision on a law banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy in Florida, one of the most restrictive bans in the country. The campaign argues that patients should have the freedom to make personal care decisions regarding abortions without interference from politicians. An organization called It Goes Too Far is running a "Decline to Sign" campaign to thwart signature gatherers and plans to defeat the initiative if it makes it onto the ballot. The group argues that the initiative's broad exemptions allow for unlimited, unregulated abortion and that much of the legislation would be inoperative if approved.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's appearance shows Biden campaign stressing impact of Roe decision. Trump plans to reveal his position next week.
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“I don't really like talking about the fact that I was raped when I was in college,” Whitmer said, “but I'm going to do it till the day I die if it means that I want to protect these rights for my daughters and all Americans.”
“But we have to tell our stories. And we have to tell our family and our neighbors and our friends and our fellow parishioners. We’ve got to have these conversations, because when we do, we win.”
Importance of Abortion Rights in Campaign
In recent days, the Biden campaign has adopted a more aggressive tone on abortion rights after the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for that state's law banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, one of the most restrictive bans in the country.
“Pregnant patients should have the freedom to make personal care decisions, especially related to abortions with their medical providers and families - and without politicians,” said Chris Love, spokeswoman for the campaign.
“The state is certainly allowed to regulate it in the same ways it regulates other medical care,” Love said. “What we're seeing now is an overregulation of abortion.”
An organization called It Goes Too Far is running a “Decline to Sign” campaign designed to thwart signature gatherers. The organization plans to follow through with a fall campaign to defeat the initiative if it makes it onto the ballot.
“Legal analysis shows it is written very vaguely and it has broad exemptions that allow for unlimited, unregulated abortion,” said Cindy Dahlgren, spokeswoman for It Goes Too Far.
Dahlgren is also communications director for the Center for Arizona Policy. The CAP president, Cathi Herrod, has been the leading architect of anti-abortion legislation at the Capitol for more than a decade. Much of that legislation would be inoperative if the initiative were approved.
“Under Arizona statute, a health care professional does include a chiropractor, a podiatrist, and many other things,” she said. “So those health care professionals would be able to sign off on a late-term abortion, or possibly write the prescription for the abortion pill.
“The easiest way to get something kicked off of the ballot or prevented from even reaching the ballot is (for opponents) to do a line-by-line signature challenge,” Love said.
주제: Social Issues, Abortion