Democrats hope listing measure to establish right to abortion on ballot will boost turnout in battleground state

Arizona voters will decide this November whether to add abortion rights into their state constitution, a prospect that could turbocharge voter turnout in a critical battleground state in the 2024 election.

Late Monday, the Arizona secretary of state’s office announced that it had validated an estimated 577,971 signatures in support of a ballot measure, the Arizona For Abortion Access Act, to establish a constitutional right to abortion in the state.

On X, the office called the measure “the largest petition effort in Arizona history”. The measure will be listed on the ballot as Proposition 139.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 months ago

    Every state should be required to put abortion on the ballot this year. (if a direct vote hadn’t happened since the overturning of Roe.) States with trigger laws shouldn’t be allowed to implement decades old laws that were passed by a old and dying generation.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      I agree it should be on the ballot in EVERY state. Simple question should abortion be legal?

      Yes -legal no restrictions

      No - illegal no exceptions

      • Tiptopit@feddit.org
        55·
        2 months ago

        As much as I’m pro abortion: no restrictions is bullshit too. Wouldn’t allow aborting in the 9th month if not the life of the mother is at stake.

        • andrewta@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          Leave it to the doctor and the one who is pregnant. No one is seeking to abort at 8.5 months unless there is a serious medical reason. So yeah leave it to the doctor and the one who is pregnant.

          • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            I mean I would, but I’m also a man that knows better than to be in that situation so I got sterilized. If someone wishes to abort at 8 and some or even 9 I have no ground to stand on when it comes to someones life that doesnt even involve me

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, that’s not a real fucking thing. No one is going to planned parenthood to get an abortion at 9 months because they don’t want to raise a kid.

        • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
          21·
          2 months ago

          Sometimes when it comes up I like to say we should allow abortion up to 20 months, just to anchor the conversation a little. Little door in the face bargaining.

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, there’s not a single woman who put up with the aches, morning sickness, tiny bladder, mood swings, gas, swollen joints, and everything else that accompanies pregnancy, for nine months before deciding she really didn’t want to be pregnant.

          The only reason women delay getting abortions is either something happens late in gestation that puts the life of the mother or the viability of the fetus as risk, or Republicans put up a bunch of arbitrary obstacles.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Will ballot initiatives like these have any notable effect on turnout in one direction or the other?

    I believe Florida also has a similar ballot initiative; I don’t know about any other states.

    • randon31415@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Here is the list

      The only one in doubt of making it on the ballot is in Arkansas where the secretary of state is pulling out all the stops to invalidate the payed canvassers signatures.