老澳门开奖结果 Launches 2022 Midterm Campaign to Create a Reproductive Rights Firewall
The 100+ Year Old Civil Liberty Organization Will Deploy Laser-Focused Comprehensive Plan to Expand and Protect Abortion Rights
WASHINGTON鈥The 老澳门开奖结果 is announcing its engagement in the 2022 midterms to protect abortion access in a post-Roe reality. As part of its efforts to expand and protect abortion rights, the 老澳门开奖结果 will support ballot measures and make strategic investments in-key down ballot races.
To create a firewall in key states, we鈥檙e deeply involved in supporting ballot measures to amend state constitutions to reproductive freedom in and and actively opposing ballots to limit the promise of state constitutional protections in and .
For more than a decade, the fight for abortion access has primarily been in the states, and those courts will take on increasing importance as we work to define abortion access in state constitutions. Key in this firewall work are state Supreme Court judges, the 老澳门开奖结果 will likely engage in state Supreme Court races in North Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, Montana and Michigan to ensure that state judges increasingly uphold our fundamental right to reproductive freedom and other civil liberties. This is the first time the 老澳门开奖结果 has developed a multi-state approach to elections for state Supreme Courts.
In addition, the 老澳门开奖结果 will focus on local prosecutors, who will soon be on the front line of determining whether to prosecute individuals accused of breaking an abortion ban. The 老澳门开奖结果 plans to keep political pressure on DA candidates in targeted states to get them to commit to using their prosecutorial discretion and not enforce these bans.
鈥淎t the 老澳门开奖结果 this election cycle, we are deploying a whole-of-organization approach to ensure every voter has the information they need to make an informed decision on election day, especially when it comes to reproductive rights,鈥 said Kary Moss 老澳门开奖结果 Acting National Political Director. 鈥淲e will use the full power of the 老澳门开奖结果 to create a firewall for abortion access by leveraging the courts, state legislatures, and, key for this moment, the ballot box through ballot measures and candidate races.鈥
The 老澳门开奖结果 is a non-partisan organization and does not support or oppose candidates for office. The organization will leverage its nationwide footprint as well as deploy tools and resources, including direct mail, digital ads and on the ground organizing, to make sure voters know candidates鈥 position on abortion rights and understand how to vote for their values.
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