Trials show successful ballot initiatives are only the beginning of restoring abortion access

[RandySF]

The outcome of two trials in the coming weeks could shape what it will look like when voters overturn state abortion bans through future ballot initiatives.

Arizona and Missouri voters in November 2024 struck down their respective near-total abortion bans. Both states added abortion access up to fetal viability as a right in their constitutions, although Arizonans approved the amendment by a much wider margin than Missouri voters.

That was just the beginning of protracted legal battles.

Amy Myrick, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said ballot measures are a powerful and important step in returning abortion access to a state, but success on Election Day doesn’t mean the fight is over.




https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trials-show-successful-ballot-initiatives-are-only-beginning-restoring-abortion-access

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1. Good point. Good laws are meaningless without

good enforcement; that means that adequately funded enforcement agencies must exist and, if need be, compelled to act.

(Similarly, good leaders, including Presidents, are relatively powerless without laws that are good with respect not only to their subject-matters but also w.r.t. the legally prescribed and defined agencies, structures, and procedures as well as the necessary for enforcement, plus funding. E.g., a lot of our current civil liberties issues arise in part from poorly-defined terms like "terrorist"; and a lot of our financial woes arise in part from the defunding of such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission.)