{"id":1294,"date":"2024-10-16T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:00:52","slug":"the-opportunities-and-realities-of-citizen-initiated-state-ballot-abortion-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"The Opportunities and Realities of Citizen-Initiated State Ballot Abortion Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Trump claims credit for SCOTUS&#8217; Dobbs decision and says that as a result, the \u201cstates are voting.\u201d States are making decisions on abortion policy, but it\u2019s mostly been state legislatures, not voters. Few states with abortion bans have a process for citizen-initiated constitutional amendments. In those states, lawmakers and anti-abortion activists have attempted to block abortion measures from qualifying for the ballot or put roadblocks in their place.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Trump claims credit for SCOTUS&#8217; Dobbs decision and says that as a result, the \u201cstates are voting.\u201d States are making decisions on abortion policy, but it\u2019s mostly been state legislatures, not voters. Few states with abortion bans have a process for citizen-initiated constitutional amendments. In those states, lawmakers and anti-abortion activists have attempted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}