An event Saturday at the Vermont Statehouse drew at least 200 rallygoers and featured multiple speakers who said Proposal 5 goes far beyond what most Vermonters — including pro-choice residents — consider acceptable for the state’s abortion policy.
Vermont’s extremist progressives are willing to lie shamelessly to deceive people from simple factual and legal truths. Proposal 5 is obscene. Roe was extreme. Dobbs is a return to constitutional normalcy.
The results demonstrate that Vermont’s proposed “reproductive autonomy” constitutional amendment — which would block any restrictions up to the moment of birth — goes contrary to broad public sentiment, according to Vermonters for Good Government.
“Generally Irritable” host Ericka Redic interviews state Rep. Anne Donahue, and Matthew Strong of Vermonters for Good Government — an organization fighting the push to add abortion to Vermont’s Constitution. Regardless of your position, you should be concerned about this proposal.
Not so much as a peep about these centers getting vandalized, or fire-bombed, even though they probably provide a valuable service to poor and minority women and, in many cases, employ them. What about them? Where’s their choice?
Vermont voters will decide in November whether women will maintain the right to retain their body autonomy when it comes to reproductive rights, Gov. Phil Scott said.
We as neighbors can finally work together to address the tragedy of unwanted pregnancies in a humane, and more effective, way. Clearly, laws that eliminate personal responsibility failed.
In this week’s headlines the Burlington Police Department may have a new group looking for alleged racial disparities in its policing. Also, Vermonters reacted strongly to the SCOTUS abortion ruling, and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., suggests kids should have access to transgender therapy.
My opponent in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor voted for this Prop 5 abortion proposal twice — not once, but two times in the Vermont Senate, in 2019 and again in 2021. We must defeat both of them.
On Wednesday’s edition of the “Morning Drive” radio show, an outgoing House Democrat who has been in office for 30 years discussed the legal meaning of Proposal 5, a constitutional amendment going before voters that would protect unrestricted abortion in Vermont up until birth.
The opinion should be welcomed by all Americans, as it will breathe life into the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, “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.”
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision striking down Roe v. Wade on Friday, two of Vermont’s government attorneys have joined 83 colleagues from 29 states in declaring they will not prosecute individuals who provide, support or seek abortions.