Jennifer Driver (Senior Director of Reproductive Rights, State Innovation Exchange), emphasizes that abortion consistently wins at the ballot box, yet anti-abortion politicians continue to undermine democratic processes through tactics like raising thresholds for constitutional amendments.
Jennifer Driver (State Innovation Exchange) on abortion ballot initiatives & anti-democratic attacks
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Transcript: In every state where abortion has been on the ballot, it has won. And so what does that tell you? That people overwhelmingly want abortion to be protected in their states. And yet anti-abortion politicians have not stopped at their way to circumvent the will of the people to restrict or change laws and policies in their state. I think about Ohio, where abortion was on the ballot and the Ohio anti-abortion legislators tried to raise the threshold for what it would take to pass the constitutional amendment. The community of Ohio was like, "oh, no, you're not doing that." So just because abortion is on the ballot and wins, does not stop from the anti-democratic attacks.