Ballot Initiatives Represent Multi-Pronged Attack on Choice
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RHRealityCheck.org: This fall, ballot initiatives in three states--California, South Dakota, and Colorado--attack women's reproductive health in different ways. California's anti-choice groups have put forth what has become a traditional anti-choice attack: a parental notification measure that is designed to chip away at access to abortion. South Dakota is again attempting an outright abortion ban, a measure that is designed to challenge Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court. Colorado citizens will vote on a new, extreme measure that would define a person's life as beginning at fertilization, outlawing not just abortions but also emergency contraception and birth control. "This really shows just how divided the anti-choice movement really is," said John Kraus, communications director for the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center, a progressive non-profit that aggregates information on ballot initiatives nationally. In each state, the anti-choice movement is taking a different strategy to attack women's reproductive rights. It seems that the anti-choice movement, rather than applying a unified national strategy, is catapulting a myriad of anti-choice initiatives and seeing what sticks.
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