Dusti Gurule, president and CEO of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, says that ballot initiatives on abortion have “the potential to excite people about voting.”
Although ballot initiatives are time-consuming and expensive, “they are the best option and strategy for winning back access to abortion or maintaining it,” said Jamie L. Manson, president of Catholics for Choice. “Especially with this Supreme Court, they are our only option. Ballot initiatives are one of the few opportunities that people have to show their support for abortion.”
Additionally, the work on the ballot initiative has been “an incredible opportunity to shift culture and grow the reproductive justice movement in Florida, especially in Spanish- speaking communities,” said Charo Valero, the Florida state manager at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.
Although abortion is already legally protected in Colorado with no gestational limits, advocates are working on a ballot initiative to enshrine that protection in their state constitution as well as allowing abortion access regardless of health insurance.
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