W.Va. governor: Voters shouldn't decide abortion access issue

[packman]

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has rejected 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.
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The West Virginia Democrats’ call for a referendum came after residents in Kansas, another state with a GOP-controlled Legislature, rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright. Despite the big margin, Kansas plans to recount the vote by hand.

“This is a very important issue,” West Virginia Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin said in an email Monday. “We need a resolution sooner rather than later. The legislature had a chance to act and failed. We should let the people decide. This is a constitutional question, and our constitution empowers the people to decide it on the ballot.”

A on-line poll showed 95% of W.Vir. respondents WANTED it to be a voting issue

https://wchstv.com/news/local/wva-democratic-leaders-say-abortion-access-question-should-be-put-before-voters

[canuckledragger]

1. "What?!? We can't let voters decide what goes on with their own bodies!"

[CrispyQ]

2. Because only rich (mostly) white men should get to set the rules.

I loathe these self-righteous fucks. We're standing on an ecological brink due to the policies of mostly rich white men & these assholes still think they are superior to everyone else & deserve to be in charge.

[Turbineguy]

3. Of course not.

We elect republicans to act against our interest.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yeah, all decisions about your private life should be made by people with no

skin in the game.

[gratuitous]

5. Well then, West Virginia

Maybe it's time to replace your governor and legislature since they're so out of touch with the will of the people.

[BlueIdaho]

6. God forbid we let the people decide!

They might decide they are better off without us! 😜

We need to end the era of professional politicians and promote term limited citizen legislators.

[carpetbagger]

7. WV governor is term limited.

And he's the richest man in the state, the kind of guy who wins elections when there's no front benchers.

[Polybius]

8. Rumor has it that he will run for the Senate in 2024

I don't know who would win, him or Joe Manchin.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Hopefully the sunset will overtake him.

[carpetbagger]

13. I read a while back that he wasn't interested.

Something about being a boss didn't lend itself to working as one of a bunch of people.

[EnergizedLib]

9. Cowards, all of them

Translation: We don’t want a repeat of Kansas in our state.

Let’s subjugate our constituents without hearing or answering to them.

That’s become their playbook.

[raccoon]

10. What an arrogant---man. Nt

[haele]

12. Oh, last ditch they'll claim it's a medical regulatory issue, not up for vote.

And the Legislature will claim they'll have all the facts from their medical expert's testimony to back up any law about abortion they have.
And of course, there will be "Surely" exemptions, so why should any honest, real citizens worry about the rights of those whores that use abortion as a birth control whenever they feel like it?


Because that's how the RW frame these thing. Good women and girls don't need to have access to any abortion procedure, because having babies is like having a piece of pie - especially when the pregnant lady is in a legal relationship with her man to take care of her.

Haele

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. The radicalized Republican party does not want voters interfering with their agenda.