Two more #states have confirmed that #constitutional #amendments protecting #abortion #rights will go before voters in November
-- while reproductive rights advocates in a third state are headed to court to challenge language summarizing their measure that they call "deceptive and misleading."
1. Late on Tuesday, the #Arizona Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit alleging that activists' description of their abortion amendment on petitions they used to gather signatures was legally insufficient. ✅The decision allows the measure, which would guarantee abortion until fetal viability, to appear on the ballot as #Proposition139.
2. On the same day, #Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen certified that a similar amendment had qualified for the ballot. That proposal, known as Constitutional #Initiative128, would likewise
✅protect the right to an abortion until a fetus is said to be viable outside the womb, which is generally around 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Jacobsen had previously sought to keep the measure from going to voters, but the state Supreme Court late last month rejected a challenge she brought.
3. Meanwhile, in #Missouri, organizers have filed a lawsuit
👉challenging language describing their amendment 👈drafted by Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, 🆘who has repeatedly used the powers of his office to undermine their campaign.
⚠️Ashcroft's summary, which would be postednext to sample ballots at polling places, claims the amendment would permit abortion "at any time of pregnancy" and "prohibit any regulation of abortion," including any laws that might target "anyone who performs an abortion and hurts or kills the pregnant women."
Last year, Ashcroft wrote a similarly 💥slanted synopsis of the amendment 💥that would have appeared on actual ballots but was repeatedly shot down by the courts, including the state Supreme Court, which declined to hear an appeal.
Ashcroft certified the measure, known as #Amendment3, earlier this month.
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