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Rhiannon12866

(229,768 posts)
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:10 PM Oct 2024

Support for abortion rights measure in Arizona cuts across party lines - Velshi - MSNBC



Arizona is one of ten states this November that will consider a ballot proposal to protect abortion rights. The state's voters will decide whether to enshrine the right to an abortion in their state constitution. The ballot measure, known as Proposition 139, would establish a fundamental right to abortion and prohibit state bans before fetal viability.

According to a New York Times/Siena College poll, 58 percent of the state’s likely voters support the initiative. Support for the measure runs across "the political spectrum" and the state's demographics, according to Chris Love, spokesperson for Arizona for Abortion Access, the group behind the effort to bring reproductive rights to the ballot. - Aired on 10/19/2024.

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Support for abortion rights measure in Arizona cuts across party lines - Velshi - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2024 OP
I'm preaching BOSSHOG Oct 2024 #1
You're completely right, our earliest immigrant settlers came here in search of religious freedom Rhiannon12866 Oct 2024 #2
This is by far the most important proposition we have to vote on. StarryNite Oct 2024 #3
This issue has inspired massive turnout and has been passed in even so-called "red" states Rhiannon12866 Oct 2024 #4

BOSSHOG

(41,406 posts)
1. I'm preaching
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 08:53 PM
Oct 2024

Do away with the separation of church and state which zealots have no respect for and turn loose the assessors. They wanna play, they gonna pay. Religious scripture has no business in our constitution. The founding fathers warned us. “Back to the States.” States rights has always and forever meant only one thing - Slavery.

Electoral College. Religious Zealotry. Neither has a damned thing to do with democracy.

Rhiannon12866

(229,768 posts)
2. You're completely right, our earliest immigrant settlers came here in search of religious freedom
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 09:15 PM
Oct 2024

And this country was founded on "the separation of church and state." As for "states rights," we know exactly what that means and that's how Reagan was able to win the South over actual Southerner Jimmy Carter by starting his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the terrible murders of Civil Rights workers in 1964, signaling his support for states rights.

As for the outmoded Electoral College, this should have been retired a century ago, but it's kept alive by Republicans who have learned that that's the only way that they can "win," disenfranchising millions of American voters who comprised the popular vote. In other words - cheating.

StarryNite

(11,381 posts)
3. This is by far the most important proposition we have to vote on.
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 09:36 PM
Oct 2024

Hopefully it will bring out people to vote who otherwise might not have bothered voting. I would think those people would also vote Harris/Walz. I cannot imagine that prop 139 will not pass.

Rhiannon12866

(229,768 posts)
4. This issue has inspired massive turnout and has been passed in even so-called "red" states
Sat Oct 19, 2024, 09:50 PM
Oct 2024

I have faith that it'll elicit the same result in Arizona.

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