#prop 3

[letsmakethenaughtylistt]

that fact that i had to vote on my own bodily autonomy was nauseating enough, but the fact that MEN also get to vote on my bodily autonomy? you’re joking, america.

[beebascloset]

me when i see anyone bitching about legalized abortion

[cultivating-wildflowers]

For anyone curious about Proposal 3 (“Reproductive Freedom for All Amendment”) on Michigan’s November ballot, I’m here to get you started*. In summary, it seeks to amend the Michigan constitution and, by painting with alarmingly broad, vague strokes, to repeal up to 47 current laws. Affected laws include:

The ban on taxpayer funding of abortions

Laws requiring parental consent and informed consent -- which allows for children to get abortions and undergo sterilization without their parents even knowing

Laws requiring abortion clinics to pass health and safety inspections

This proposal removes all limits on abortions and allows abortion up to partial-birth abortions, for any reason whatsoever, prescribed by any “medical care professional” at all (meaning dentists, optometrists, acupuncturists, and massage therapists can prescribe abortions). It opens the door to prevent investigations of infanticide; to allow parents and doctors to abandon disabled infants to die instead of providing life-saving treatments; and it “makes consent the only legal limit” (from the wording breakdown linked below).

All under the guise of allowing women to murder their children.

Sources below:

*I compiled most of this before my morning caffeine fix so if anyone has more comprehensive sources or posts, PLEASE feel free to share those.

Full text of the proposal to get you started:

https://grdiocese.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/proposal-3-reproductive-freedom-constitutional-amendment-language.pdf

A comprehensive breakdown of the wording:

https://supportmiwomenandchildren.org/analysis-of-the-abortion-amendment/

(A part that stood out to me was: Any existing law related to pregnancy, sex, abortion, sterilization, etc. has to overcome three separate obstacles. [...] No law on anything related to pregnancy can infringe on a person’s “autonomous decision making.” Well, every law infringes on someone’s decisions; a law preventing a restaurant from serving you raw meat infected with salmonella is infringing on their decision to serve it and your decision to buy it. Most people agree your county health department has a compelling state interest in stopping people from dying by food poisoning.”)

And some commentary:

https://www.detroitcatholic.com/voices/what-supporters-of-the-michigan-abortion-proposal-wont-tell-you

Further, the proposal summary text explains the proposal will "invalidate state laws conflicting with this amendment." Neither the amendment nor the summary text, however, details what state laws will be invalidated.

https://www.lifenews.com/2022/09/12/michigan-proposal-3-would-overturn-every-pro-life-law-allow-abortions-up-to-birth/

“I think the biggest concerns with Proposal 3 are that it’s too confusing, too extreme, and too permanent,” Christen Pollo, spokeswoman for the pro-life coalition, told Local 4.

A legal analysis by John Bursch, a former Michigan solicitor general and senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, identified 47 state laws that could be erased if the amendment passes, according to the report.

These include laws about late-term abortions, infanticide, parental consent, the age of consent to have sex, abortion facility inspections and other safety measures.

Currently, Michigan law requires parents to consent for their underage child to have basically any medical procedure, from having their tonsils removed to an abortion. However, the amendment would create an exception for abortion, making it so a girl as young as 12 can have an abortion without her parents’ knowledge or consent.

Commentary from both sides, even!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michigan-supreme-court-approves-abortion-proposal-for-november-ballot/ar-AA11CBAi

They also argue it would mean abortions could happen up until birth, but the proposal allows lawmakers to regulate abortion “after fetal viability,” except when to “protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.”

Fetal viability is defined in the amendment as when an attending health care professional sees “a significant likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside the uterus” without “extraordinary medical measures.”

(Interpretation: “Opponents argue it would allow for abortions up to birth, which it doesn’t allow for except it does because any ‘health care professional’ can make that call for any reason whatsoever.”)

I tried to find a list of the nearly 50 laws this amendment would affect. Still haven’t located that, but I did find this article:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/09/12/groups-say-abortion-amendment-invalidates-nearly-50-laws-heres-what-experts-are-saying/

“A law enshrining a right to an abortion does not mean that it is now legal to rape an 11-year-old, or for an 11-year-old to have consensual sex with somebody. Those laws have nothing to do with abortion. And they have everything to do with criminal law.”

The problem here is this is not “a law enshrining a right to abortion”. It is an amendment addressing “reproductive rights for all”. That includes sex, sterilization, and birth control.

It’s not just about abortion.

[beebascloset]

People bitching about prop 3 sound dumb because "wahhh kids can get abortions without parental consent boo :(" how tf would they do it without them knowing like hoe you want yo 13 year old to give birth??? if she tried to adopt then she would be denied but you're denying her an abortion???

anyways we won, republicans can go cry now :)

[cultivating-wildflowers]

"I Didn't Know" video about Proposal 3 produced by Grace Lutheran Church in Coopersville, Mich.

Local news from the Diocese of Saginaw

If you live in Michigan, educate yourself on the proposals on November's ballot. Read the fine print. Vote "No" to Proposal 3.

[subarupaul]

actually now that the election is over there's something that i can find some joy in

some jackass put up a "no on 3" sign in one of the lawns in my apartment complex. prop 3 was a referendum item on the missouri ballot this election in favor of overturning the state's abortion ban.

i don't even live in MO. i live in kansas. the same kansas where abortion has remained protected in the state constitution since our own referendum in 2022. so like. KS residents can't even vote on prop 3. and if they could, based on the 2022 election results, they would have voted in favor of repealing the ban.

i'm happy to announce that prop 3 passed last night and abortion rights are now protected by the missouri state constitution as well. so, suck it idiot who put up a "no on 3" sign in an apartment complex in johnson county, KS of all places.

[drag-tween]

San Diego Lawmakers, LGBTQ+ Activists Endorse Proposition to Protect Marriage Equality

Mayor Todd Gloria, Sen. Toni Atkins and Assemblymember Chris Ward joined LGBTQ+ activists Tuesday at San Diego's LGBT Community Center to endorse Proposition 3, also known as the Freedom to Marry ballot measure

[shapeshiftingsinner]

excited that the vote yesterday resulted in:

Solidified reproductive protections

And

Public Transport being AVAILABLE in my area soon