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GOP accidentally releases its dirty tricks plan to screw with AZ abortion rights initiative
For example, flooding the ballot with multiple initiatives that set all kinds of different abortion-ban timeframes.
Then another initiative to screw with judicial interpretation - passing a constitutional amendment saying that the legislature's restrictions on abortion must be respected by the courts.
So the court could be faced with a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to abortion - and another constitutional amendment saying that the legislature has a right to restrict abortion. Just pure fuckery.
You'd have to educate pro-choice voters: Vote No on 1, No on 2, Yes on 3, No on 4.....
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AZ GOP accidentally sent their secret plan to continue their attack on reproductive freedom to all members of the #AZLeg. In it, they admit they want to:
•Dilute the votes of citizens' abortion initiative
•Disguise a 14-week ban as a 15-week ban
•Give Legislature full authority to regulate abortion
•Mislead voters through the referral's placement on the ballot and manipulative short titles
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The Arizona GOP are already working on a plan to try to stop the abortion rights amendment from passing this Nov.
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The GOP are discussing adding additional abortion initiatives to the ballot with a leaked memo stating, it's "“more likely that the abortion rights amendment will fail if the vote is split (dilutes vote).”"
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-gop-strategy-document-implores-party-show-republicans-plan-abo-rcna147920
Arizona GOP strategy document implores party to show 'Republicans have a plan' on abortion
The presentation lays out a menu of GOP options on abortion policy after a state Supreme Court ruling upheld a near-total abortion ban in Arizona law.
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In Arizona, a proposed constitutional amendment can make its way onto the ballot through a citizen-initiated process that relies on collecting signatures or through a referral by the Legislature.
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For example, the "Phase 1" options appear to describe a situation in which Republican lawmakers would refer a proposed amendment to protect legislators' authority to "enact laws rationally related to promoting and preserving life and to protecting the health and safety of pregnant women."
The document describes that approach as "complimentary (not conflicting)" to the proposed abortion-rights amendment — and it says that if both appeared and passed in November, "courts would" be forced to "consider both when interpreting the constitutional right to abortion."
The document also advises Republican lawmakers to choose titles for their "Phase 1" measures along the lines of “Protecting Pregnant Women and Safe Abortions Act,” the “Arizona Abortion and Reproductive Care Act" and the “Arizona Abortion Protection Act."
Arizona GOP strategy document implores party to show 'Republicans have a plan' on abortion
The presentation lays out a menu of GOP options on abortion policy after a state Supreme Court ruling upheld a near-total abortion ban in Arizona law.
...
In Arizona, a proposed constitutional amendment can make its way onto the ballot through a citizen-initiated process that relies on collecting signatures or through a referral by the Legislature.
...
For example, the "Phase 1" options appear to describe a situation in which Republican lawmakers would refer a proposed amendment to protect legislators' authority to "enact laws rationally related to promoting and preserving life and to protecting the health and safety of pregnant women."
The document describes that approach as "complimentary (not conflicting)" to the proposed abortion-rights amendment — and it says that if both appeared and passed in November, "courts would" be forced to "consider both when interpreting the constitutional right to abortion."
The document also advises Republican lawmakers to choose titles for their "Phase 1" measures along the lines of “Protecting Pregnant Women and Safe Abortions Act,” the “Arizona Abortion and Reproductive Care Act" and the “Arizona Abortion Protection Act."
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