This week marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which previously guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, returning the issue of abortion to individual states.
overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which previously guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, returning the issue of abortion to individual states.13 states have completely banned abortionsAt the same time, abortion rights advocates have turned to ballot initiatives as a powerful tool in the face of such bans.
Some Republican-led states, such as Ohio, have responded to the success of such measures by seeking to make it harder for citizens to change laws or state constitutions through ballot initiatives. But in other states, conservative lawmakers are taking a page from the abortion rights advocates’ book by proposing ballot initiatives of their own.
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