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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,009 posts)
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 08:30 PM Aug 2022

WVa governor: Voters shouldn't decide abortion access issue

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice scoffed Monday at a suggestion by Democratic lawmakers to let voters decide whether abortion should continue to be allowed in the state.

The Republican governor said the state's abortion law falls under the scrutiny of the Legislature and the attorney general.

During a legislative special session initiated by Justice last month, majority Republicans failed to pass legislation criminalizing abortion.

On Friday, top Democrats asked Justice and leading GOP lawmakers to bring the Legislature back to consider a resolution to allow voters to consider a constitutional amendment for “reproductive freedom.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wva-governor-voters-shouldnt-decide-175201007.html

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WVa governor: Voters shouldn't decide abortion access issue (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 OP
The very IDEA Women should have a say infuriates them. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2022 #1
He's right. We shouldn't have to vote on our rights guaranteed by the constitution Walleye Aug 2022 #2
+1 crickets Aug 2022 #3
Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote! Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #4

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,348 posts)
4. Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote!
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 04:37 AM
Aug 2022

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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