Politico: The move to push abortion off the ballot

September 13. 2024

Executive Director Noreen Farrell spoke is featured in Politico today about strategies for protecting abortion rights in the upcoming election:

Noreen Farrell, executive director at nonprofit Equal Rights Advocates, tells Women Rule this bodes well for abortion rights measures in this election.

“Citizen-initiated constitutional amendments are a really powerful tool that is being used to let voters place abortion on the ballot without directly involving the legislature or governor,” Farrell says.

As she sees it, the intense pushback against the ballot measures “reflects a widening of strategies that anti-abortion activists and groups are employing to make sure that these … initiatives never see the light of day.”

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