Anti-Abortion Measure Begins Campaign to Appear on Ballots
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
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Alicia Marks, Communications Director for Oregon Life United; courtesy of Oregon Life United
Oregon Life United turned in a petition with nearly 1,500 signatures to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office last week in an effort to get a ballot measure that would “stop taxpayer-funded abortion,” on state ballots next year.
Chief Petitioners Jeff Jimerson and Marylin Shannon delivered the signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office last week.
Oregon taxpayers don’t want their hard-earned money spent on elective abortions,” said Alicia Marks, Communications Director for Oregon Life United. “Women and babies deserve better than this.”
Supporters of the measure told GoLocal it will keep taxpayer money from going to pay for abortions in the State of Oregon. According to Oregon Life United, more than $20 million in taxpayer funding has gone towards abortion during the past 12 years.
Members of the Pro-Choice Coalition of Oregon, which includes Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon and Western States Center, oppose the initiative, as do other reproductive rights organizations.
“It’s terrible policy,” Mary Nolan, Executive Director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Portland, told GoLocal. “It’s not just us that thinks so, the voters of Oregon agree. They have had the chance to speak on this issue before and they said that they believe access to healthcare should not be dependant on where you live or who pays for your health insurance. This would violate both of those ideas.”
This is the first step for Oregon Life United’s effort to get the measure on ballots in 2016. Ultimately, the organization will need 117,000 signatures from Oregon voters for the measure to be voted on during the 2016 general election in November.
This is not the first time that Oregon Life United has worked to put a proposal on ballots to outlaw taxpayer-funded abortions. In 2012, volunteers gathered 72,000 signatures and in 2014, they collected 98,000 signatures.
Representatives with Oregon Life United said that based on the amount of signatures at this point in the process, they are confident the measure will appear on ballots in 2016.
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