A recent exchange between a Vermont lawmaker and an ACLU lawyer suggests that if Prop 5 is approved, men may be allowed to sue on a case-by-case basis to keep their unborn child alive.
The Vermont House on Tuesday will vote on a constitutional amendment to enshrine unrestricted abortion.
The House could vote on Prop 5 as soon as Friday, ending the legislative process of efforts to enshrine unrestricted abortion in the State Constitution. The governor has no veto powers, but the voters do – and they exercised them as recently as 1986.
It was a small, comparatively laid-back crowd in the Vermont State House last night – for a public hearing on abortion.
A public hearing on Proposition 5, the proposed enshrining of abortion in the Vermont Constitution, will take place Wednesday 6 pm at the Vermont State House and online.
The annual Vermont Rally for Life will gather in Montpelier Saturday, January 22 – the 49th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.
A bill making it easier to obtain lethal end-of-life drugs has cleared a Senate committee and now goes to the full Senate for approval.
Critics of an “update” to Vermont’s 2013 doctor-prescribed death law say a pandemic is a terrible time to remove safeguards intended to protect vulnerable adults from abuse.
Three bills introduced by pro-life lawmakers would likely be ruled unconstitutional if an abortion-enshrining constitutional amendment is approved.
The annual Vermont Rally for Life will gather in Montpelier Saturday, January 22 – the 49th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.
