{"id":3213,"date":"2024-02-02T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/maine-democrats-move-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-into-state-constitution\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:16:44","slug":"maine-democrats-move-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-into-state-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/maine-democrats-move-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-into-state-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Democrats move to enshrine abortion rights into state constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A party-line committee vote points to a partisan challenge for Democrats who want to amend the Maine Constitution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enshrine abortion<\/a> as a right.<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary Committee voted 6-5 in favor of the proposal Thursday with all Democrats in support and all Republicans in opposition. Two committee members were absent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-hampshire-house-rejects-further-expansion-restriction-abortion-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE REJECTS FURTHER EXPANSION, OR RESTRICTION OF ABORTION ACCESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maine Democrats are seeking to join four other states that have amended their constitutions to protect the right to abortion since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Last year, a passionate debate unfolded over a new law that expanded access to abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature but lack big-enough majorities to send the proposed amendment to voters unless they convince some Republicans to support the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Senate<\/a> will now take up the proposal. At least two Republicans in the 35-member chamber would have to support amending the constitution for the measure to reach a needed two-thirds vote. The hill for Democrats is steeper in the 151-member House.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsor, Democratic Sen. Eloise Vitelli, was happy to see the proposal clear its first hurdle. &#8220;The best way to get politics out of abortion, and abortion out of politics, is to make sure our state constitution is clear: Reproductive autonomy is a human right. Maine voters deserve the right to weigh in on this,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A party-line committee vote points to a partisan challenge for Democrats who want to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine abortion as a right. The Judiciary Committee voted 6-5 in favor of the proposal Thursday with all Democrats in support and all Republicans in opposition. Two committee members were absent. NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE REJECTS FURTHER &#8230; <a title=\"Maine Democrats move to enshrine abortion rights into state constitution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/maine-democrats-move-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-into-state-constitution\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maine Democrats move to enshrine abortion rights into state constitution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}