{"id":57222,"date":"2024-11-08T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57222"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:01:18","slug":"the-people-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57222","title":{"rendered":"The People Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The Epoch Times<\/a> posted an article about two referenda that were on the ballot in Arizona.<\/p>\n

The article reports and the first ballot question:<\/p>\n

Two controversial ballot initiatives concerning illegal immigration and abortion easily passed at the ballot box on Nov. 5 with broad support from voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposition 314, a statutory amendment referred by the Arizona Legislature, prohibits illegal immigrants from entering the state directly from a foreign country at any location other than a lawful port of entry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The law effectively empowers Arizona law enforcement officers to arrest illegal immigrants. It also bars illegal immigrants from knowingly submitting false documents to apply for public benefits or a job and makes it a class 2 felony for an adult to knowingly sell fentanyl that later causes the death of another person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article reports of the second ballot question:<\/p>\n

Arizona was also one of 10 states that voted on the issue of abortion this election.<\/strong><\/div>\n

In a 62\u201338 vote, the state approved a citizen-led initiative to establish a constitutional right to abortion through fetal viability, and when a \u201chealth care professional\u201d deems it necessary to protect the mother\u2019s life or health.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposition 139 also bars the state from penalizing anyone who assists a woman in obtaining an abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At present, abortion is legal in Arizona through 15 weeks of pregnancy, though the issue has been a matter of contention in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 decision, which overturned the federal right to abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The federal right to abortion was never in the U.S. Constitution. That fact was stated by none other than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Tenth Amendment states:<\/p>\n

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the decision on abortion was correctly left up to individual states.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it!\u201d the group wrote in an X post<\/a>. \u201cArizona has overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion access! We proved, yet again, that Arizona is a state that values freedom and individual rights.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

Opponents of the measure argued that the inclusion of an exception for the mother\u2019s general \u201chealth\u201d could be interpreted to authorize late-term abortions for virtually any reason. They also held that it would prohibit health and safety regulations to protect women and minors while removing licensed physicians from the equation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the morning of Nov. 6, a petition was already circulating online asking Arizona state senators to either repeal the amendment or enact new legislation to \u201chelp decrease the actual number of abortions performed in our state.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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