Arizona: PRO-ABORTION AMENDMENT WILL BE ON BALLOT

Ballot Initiative: Arizona Abortion Access Act

Constitutional amendment to establish a fundamental right to abortion in virtually all cases before and after fetal viability.

• Establishes a “right” to abortion in the Arizona State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Removes the requirement for a medical doctor to be involved and makes critical safeguards unenforceable.
• Removes parental consent.
• Makes it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes.
• Opens the door for taxpayer-funded abortion.
• Risks removing conscientious objection protections for health-care providers who opt out of abortion procedures.
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.

• Join the It Goes Too Far campaign, with options to make phone calls, get a yard sign, host an event, join regular Zoom training sessions and more.
• Messaging well is critical as polling shows the message that the amendment would allow abortion up until birth is not effective in Arizona. Contact It Goes Too Far campaign manager Leisa Brug at [email protected] for more information.
• Vote No on Proposition 139.

Ballot Initiative: Right to Abortion Initiative (89)

Constitutional amendment to provide a right to abortion and ensure the government cannot prohibit health insurance coverage for abortion.

• Establishes a “right” to abortion in the Colorado State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for any reason.
• The language states that the government cannot “impede” or “discriminate” against the right to abortion, preventing the enactment of any laws that could delay abortion, such as those related to health and safety, parental consent, and those that help ensure woman are not being coerced into abortion by sex traffickers or abusers.
• Forces taxpayer-funded abortion
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.

• Join the efforts of Right To Know Colorado, a coalition of more than 50 organizations providing volunteer opportunities, events, and educational resources
• Join the efforts of AAPLOG Colorado, Dr. Catherine Wheeler, President; Tom Perille, MD, Vice President, and Wendy Smith, APRN-retired, Secretary, who are hosting bi-weekly Zoom meetings, providing educational resources, encouraging voter registration and more. Email AAPLOG at [email protected].
• Join the work of Concerned Women for America in Colorado by contacting their state director, Karen Pennington, Ph.D., RN, via email at [email protected] or call 303-903-5283.
• Contact the Colorado Catholic Conference HERE for to learn more about their pro-life efforts.
• Vote No on Initiative 89.

Ballot Initiative: Florida Amendment 4: Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion

Constitutional amendment to codify unrestricted abortion access, permitting abortion before viability and in virtually all cases after viability, dictating that no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion.

• Amends the Florida State Constitution to permit abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• No parental consent nor informed consent.
• No health or safety regulations.
• No qualification requirements for abortionists or abortion clinics.
• No limit on late-term abortions, including brutal dismemberment abortions.
• No limit on aborting babies to harvest their organs.
• No reflection or waiting period.
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.
• May make it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes

• Join with the work of Liberty Counsel Action by clicking HERE.
• Join the efforts of Vote No On 4 HERE.
• Click HERE for information from Protect Human Life – Florida, an effort to defeat Amendment 4.
• Get involved with one of the following groups:
  • Florida Family Voice (formerly Florida Family Policy Council), phone: 407-251-5130, email: [email protected]
  • Florida Catholic Conference (Michael Sheedy), email [email protected]
  • Concerned Women for America (Ruth Smith). Phone: 760-815-9803, email: [email protected]
• Vote No on Amendment 4.

Ballot Initiative: Senate Bill 798

Constitutional amendment to establish that every person has a fundamental right to “reproductive freedom” (including abortion) and to prohibit the state from denying, burdening, or abridging that right without a compelling state interest.

• Establishes a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Maryland State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Prohibits parental consent laws.
• Prevents reasonable health and safety standards for the protection of mothers and their unborn babies.
• Will require taxpayer funding of abortion.
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.
• Makes it harder to detect whether women are being coerced into abortion and easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover their crimes
• Note: The amendment also would remove parental rights related to their children undergoing transgender surgeries.

• Get involved with the Health Not Harm Campaign, offering education resources, a link to voter registration, and more. For further information, contact Debrorah Brocato at [email protected].
• Check out the pro-life work of the Maryland Family Institute, phone: 410-449-0444, email: [email protected]
• Vote No on Question 1.

Ballot Initiative: The Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative

Constitutional amendment to provide a fundamental right for “reproductive freedom,” defined as “the right to make ... decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions.”

• Provides a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Missouri State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Eliminates over 52 pro-life laws, including laws related to reasonable health and safety standards, as well as a requirement to show a mother the ultrasound image of her baby (which would be removed).
• Ushers in the likelihood of taxpayer-funded abortions.
• Removes parental consent.
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.
• May make it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes.
• Note: The amendment would also threaten parental rights related to their children undergoing transgender surgery.

• Get involved with Missouri Right to Life, through prayer, attending events, reviewing educational resources, volunteering, and more. For more information, contact them at [email protected].
• Contact Samuel H. Lee with Campaign Life at [email protected].
• Pray for the success of a lawsuit challenging the amendment, which argues it should not appear on the ballot given it violates the state constitution.
• Vote No on Amendment 3.

Ballot Initiative: Ballot Issue 14

Constitutional amendment to provide a right to abortion and prohibit the government from denying or burdening the right to abortion before and after fetal viability in most cases.

• Establishes a “right” to abortion in the Montana State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Makes it harder to detect whether women are being coerced into abortion and will likely make it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes.
• Prohibits parental consent*
• Prevents reasonable health and safety standards for the protection of mothers and their unborn babies.

*The Montana Supreme Court recently ruled parental consent for abortion violates the state constitution.

• Get involved with the Montana Family Foundation, which is providing educational resources and ways to engage. Email Jeff Laszloffy, president, [email protected], and Derek Oestreicher, [email protected]; or call 406-628-1141 for more information.
• Vote No on Ballot Measure 14.

Ballot Initiative: Protect the Right to Abortion

Constitutional amendment to provide the fundamental right to abortion without interference from the state until, and in virtually all cases after, fetal viability.

• Establishes a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Nebraska State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Prohibits parental consent laws.
• Places the health and safety of woman at risk.
• Informed consent laws would be at risk, increasing the likelihood of coerced abortions.
• Makes it so that a woman does not need to see a medical professional in person, or possibly at all.
• May permit infanticide after the baby is born alive.
• May make it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes.

• Take action with the Nebraska Family Alliance, with options to volunteer, share church resources, and more. Click HERE and/or contact Karen Bowling, Executive Director. Phone: 402-477-3191 or 888-777-5188 or email:
• [email protected]
• Join the efforts of Nebraska Right To Life, as they offer training programs, educational resources, and more. Get their alerts HERE.
• Vote No on the pro-abortion ballot initiative.

Ballot Initiative: Protect Women and Children Initiative

Constitutional amendment to protect unborn children after the first trimester.

• Enshrines protections for the unborn in the Nebraska State Constitution in the second and third trimesters, except in a medical emergency or in a pregnancy resulting from sexual assault or incest.
• Ensures pro-life laws can be enacted in the future.

• In addition to the above, join the efforts of Protect Women and Children, a group of Nebraska medical professionals who launched the pro-life ballot initiative, with options to volunteer and more.
• Vote Yes on the Protect Women and Children Initiative.

Ballot Initiative: The Nevada Reproductive Rights Amendment

Constitutional amendment to provide the fundamental right to abortion until and after fetal viability in virtually all cases, and to prohibit the government from denying, burdening, or infringing the right to abortion without a compelling state interest.

• Establishes a “fundamental right” to abortion in the Nevada State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• Prohibits parental consent laws from being enacted and ensures Nevada’s current status as a “magnet” for sex traffickers, predators, and abusers continues.
• Places the health and safety of woman at risk, for example, will lead to a lack of regulation for abortion clinics.
• Makes it so that a woman does not need to see a medical doctor in person, or possibly at all.
• May permit infanticide (by neglect) by eliminating the current hospital requirement to provide life-saving care to infants born alive after a failed abortion.

• Click HERE for resources to stop the abortion amendment from Decline to Sign – Nevada, with options to volunteer as well as to speak out if you live in Nevada and a signature gatherer lied to you.
• Vote No on Question 6.

Ballot Initiative: Equal Protection of Law Amendment

Constitutional amendment to establish equality under the law, specifically outlining that a person cannot be discriminated against based on “ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”

• The amendment will likely codify abortion into the New York State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for any reason (see here for more).
• In essence, it would most likely prohibit any restrictions, limits, and regulations on abortion — ranging from parental consent to health and safety protections.
• May permit infanticide after a baby is born alive.
• Note: The amendment also has a wide-ranging impact on LGBTQ+ matters, including threatening parental rights related to their children undergoing transgender surgery. Religious institutions and organizations would be prohibited from exercising their sincerely held religious beliefs on human sexuality.

• Join the efforts of the New York Family Research Foundation, offering educational and engagement resources, by subscribing HERE and/or taking their pledge HERE. You can also follow them on social media. Contact Executive Director Jason McGuire by phone: 585-225-2220 or email: [email protected] for more information.
• Vote No on on Proposal 1

Ballot Initiative: Right to Abortion

Constitutional amendment to provide a right to abortion in the first trimester, and in virtually all cases in the second and third trimesters, providing a legal framework to “regulate” abortion after the first trimester.

• Establishes a “right” to abortion in the South Dakota State Constitution, permitting abortion up until birth for virtually any reason.
• The amendment may permit killing (directly or indirectly) a baby who is born alive after a failed abortion.
• Would override several current pro-life laws, including parental notification rights and protections from forced abortions.
• Makes it easier for sex traffickers and abusers to cover up their crimes.
• Overrides current health and safety requirements, for example, requiring a physician to be involved in an abortion.
• Likely renders conscience protections null and void for doctors and nurses who refuse to participate in abortions.

• Share resources available at Life Defense Fund, and/or volunteer by filling out their form.
• Get involved with the Family Heritage Alliance by clicking here and/or by phone or email. Phone: 605-718-5433, email Norman Woods, Executive Director: [email protected]
• Vote No on Amendment G