The onetime champions of popular control of abortion policy are now beating a hasty retreat from the will of the people.
and Oklahoma are debating bills this session that would hike the filing fees, raise the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, restrict who can collect signatures, mandate broader geographic distribution of signatures, and raise the vote threshold to pass an amendment from a majority to a supermajority.
“I think it just continues the policy of Mississippi and our state leaders that we’re going to be a pro-life state,” said Mississippi state Rep. Nick Bain, who presented the bill on the House floor. So much for popular sovereignty. In Ohio and Missouri, Republican lawmakers are working to impose supermajority requirements for passage of ballot initiatives. One Missouri proposal would super-weight rural opinion by requiring that ballot initiatives win in over half of the state’s House districts.
In some states, anti-abortion advocates are divided between those who want to entrench state-legislative control over the law of reproductive rights and those who want to preserve ballot initiatives to keep pressure on Republican legislators to stay pure and extreme.
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