Alanna Vagianos (she/her) is a senior national reporter at HuffPost. She covers gender and politics with a focus on gender-based violence and reproductive justice. Previously, she worked at BUST Magazine and The Feminist Majority Foundation. She graduated from Elon University in North Carolina. Alanna can be reached at [email protected].
“They know we’re winning ... and yet they’re pulling every trick in their playbook,” an attorney with the ACLU of Florida said of Republicans attempting to undermine a pro-choice amendment on the state's ballot.on abortion, he never fails to come back to his safest talking point: He allowed the states to decide how to regulate abortion.
“The only way conservatives know how to win right now is to change the rules rather than allow the people to decide on the merits of an issue,” said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, executive director at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, who has worked with citizen-led campaigns in all 10 states where an abortion rights amendment is in play.
“The fact that is controversial does not mean that the courts and state officials should cast aside the fundamental right to have that vote,”that Ashcroft had missed his window to decertify the measure and that the question to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution could appear on the ballot.this week to block the state’s abortion rights amendment, which would restore access to the procedure until fetal viability and loosen the state’s 12-week abortion ban.
“They know we’re winning, they know Floridians are against Florida’s cruel and extreme abortion ban, and yet they’re pulling every trick in their playbook,” Keisha Mulfort, an attorney with the ACLU of Florida, said in a press call this week. Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost. We are sincerely grateful for readers like you who help us ensure that we can keep our journalism free for everyone.
“Certain politicians, who tend to be from the GOP, are in real time undermining what our democracy means and moving us more towards authoritarianism and minority rule,” said Fields Figueredo, from the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “Ultimately, the fight for reproductive freedom is also the fight for our democracy.”Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost. We are sincerely grateful for readers like you who help us ensure that we can keep our journalism free for everyone.
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