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If abortion rights can win on the ballot in Kansas, “it is advocacy inspiring,” Kelly Hall says. “I hope that it is also politically inspiring for folks to not run away from this issue, no matter what corner of the country they’re in.”
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to give voters a say in oversight over the county sheriff.
“Now that abortion is no longer a federally guaranteed right, ballot measures will continue to be essential in the fight ahead,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which is supporting citizen-initiated ballot measures to defend reproductive rights across the country in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in June.
“I think in this post-Dobbs moment, we are all coming to grips with just how wide the gulf is between what popular opinion is on where and how and when abortion should be legal," Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, a group that campaigns for progressive ballot initiatives, said in an interview.
Today, voters in Kansas protected their reproductive freedom by voting to keep the right to an abortion in their state constitution, defeating a legislatively referred measure.
Kelly Hall, director of the Fairness Project which advocates for progressive policy via state-level ballot measures, told Jezebel ballot measures can often go ignored by voters who may vote for a candidate at the top of the ticket and not bother to vote for anyone or anything else.
On Tuesday, Kansas voters will decide whether to explicitly remove the right to an abortion from their state constitution, the first test case in the fight for reproductive rights via statewide ballot measure.
Fifty-seven years since the creation of Medicaid, gridlock in Congress, rising living costs, and an ongoing pandemic underscore an urgent need to expand and protect affordable health care for millions of Americans.
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