Since its passing, Michigan has seen a concerted effort to effectively end parental consent laws.” “roponents of the pro-abortion rights measure promised Michiganders the measure would not impede on parental rights or consent for minors. From the conservative publication the Washington Examiner : Now, here we are-and that’s exactly what’s happening. I also predicted that anti-abortion activists and Republicans would claim Michigan was ending parental rights no matter what the law actually said. (Parental rights has been a huge issue around the Ohio ballot measure.) My guess was that declining to repeal of parental consent wasn’t about anything happening in Michigan, but because of fears that conservatives would use it to claim that the amendment in Ohio would lead to the same thing. I wrote a few weeks ago about how Michigan Democrats didn’t include parental consent in their new Reproductive Health Act-legislation to repeal anti-abortion laws now that abortion is protected in the state constitution. Please note the mention of parental rights. “Because of Prop 3, Michigan has become the wild, wild west where they have allowed radical abortion ideology to override common sense and compassionate medical safety requirements protecting women and children-not to mention parental rights…Ohio be warned: The tragic consequences of Michigan’s Prop 3 are coming to fruition less than a year after passage.” (Naturally, though, they’re lying about it.) From a Protect Women Ohio press release: The archdiocese have also produced advertisements in opposition to the amendment, and are even shaming Catholic voters in Ohio : a spokeswoman for the Cincinnati archdiocese said, “Each person bears moral responsibility for his or her vote.”Īnti-abortion activists are also pointing to Michigan -which recently enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution-as a warning for what could happen in Ohio. In fact, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the Catholic dioceses have given the most money by a mile among donors in the state. The Catholic Church, for example, has given nearly a million dollars to defeat Issue 1. Meanwhile, as we get closer to Ohio ’s ballot measure vote, conservatives are ramping up their efforts to oppose the amendment. Book, who Abortion, Every Day interviewed back in March, tweeted, “The Governor has said ‘that will not happen in Florida’-but we’re not just going to take his word for it, today I filed a bill to ensure it.” Book’s legislation would add a provision reading that the penalties in the state’s abortion law “do not apply to the pregnant woman who terminates the pregnancy.” Ron DeSantis’ claim that the 6-week ban would not criminalize abortion patients, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book is proposing legislation to make good on that promise. The good news is that Florida voters decidedly do not want the recently-passed 6-week ban : 75% oppose the law, including 60% of Republicans. (Right now, anti-abortion activists claim that the language is too “vague.”)Īssuming the amendment gets in front of voters in 2024, it would need 60% of the vote to pass. Smith, the political science chair at the University of Florida, says that the moves to make citizen-led initiatives more difficult is “quite intentional.” The other potential hurdle pro-choicers face is the review of the amendment’s language-and whether a court decides that it’s clear enough to go in front of voters. But the Orlando Sentinel reports that the longer it takes to collect the rest of the signatures, the more time it gives Republicans to add further restrictions to the ballot measure process-like “giving the attorney general more power to interfere with reviews, increasing the signatures necessary to trigger a review, and a ban on paying canvassers per signature.”ĭaniel A. (Names have been ordered by hometowns when available.As Florida abortion rights activists get closer to gathering the nearly 900,000 signatures they need to move a pro-choice ballot measure forward, Republicans are already thinking about how to stymie their amendment.įloridians Protecting Freedom have already collected approximately 600,000 signatures half have been validated by the state so far. The graduating students listed below completed the requirements for certificates or degrees at the conclusion of the summer 2022 semester. During graduation, more than 200 students were acknowledged for completion of short-term certificates, certificates, associate in applied science degrees, and associate in arts/science degrees. Chris Cox, Shelton State President, presided over each event. Aug– Commencement exercises for Shelton State Community College were held on Thursday, August 4 and Friday, August 5 at the Martin Campus.
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