The legislature will be back in session Tuesday. Lawmakers are getting ready to tackle some big issues, including reproductive rights.The Reproductive Liberty Amendment, otherwise known as Proposal 5, would amend Vermont’s state constitution, making personal reproductive rights a liberty for all Vermonters. It needs one more vote in the House before it can land on the ballot this November.”I can’t think of a more important and critical issue for us to take action on this legislative session seeing what’s going on with the Supreme Court,” Rep. Jill Krowinski, (D) House Speaker, said.This year, the U.S. Supreme Court could hand down a ruling on an abortion law in Mississippi, which could lead to the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade.Not everyone believes that Prop 5 would be the solution if Roe v. Wade were overturned.”This proposal is not good government for the state of Vermont,” Annisa Lamberton, spokesperson for Vermonters for Good Government, said. “This proposal goes much further than Roe v. Wade and it encompasses so much more than abortion that it’s not stated in Proposal 5. We’re leaving this into interpretation that goes beyond the voter and beyond the legislators.” Vermonters for Good Government believes the language is too vague and that, as science evolves, this amendment won’t offer the protections it is selling.Planned Parenthood of Northern New England supports Prop 5. They said the language in the amendment is very clear.”It covers access to contraception, access to sterilization, access to wanting to carry a pregnancy to term,” Eileen Sullivan, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, said. “We should all be able to make our own decisions about our health and wellbeing without the interference of politicians.”If Proposal 5 were to make it to the ballot and pass, Vermont would be the first state in the nation to add a reproductive amendment to it’s state constitution.
The legislature will be back in session Tuesday. Lawmakers are getting ready to tackle some big issues, including reproductive rights.
The Reproductive Liberty Amendment, otherwise known as Proposal 5, would amend Vermont’s state constitution, making personal reproductive rights a liberty for all Vermonters. It needs one more vote in the House before it can land on the ballot this November.
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“I can’t think of a more important and critical issue for us to take action on this legislative session seeing what’s going on with the Supreme Court,” Rep. Jill Krowinski, (D) House Speaker, said.
This year, the U.S. Supreme Court could hand down a ruling on an abortion law in Mississippi, which could lead to the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade.
Not everyone believes that Prop 5 would be the solution if Roe v. Wade were overturned.
“This proposal is not good government for the state of Vermont,” Annisa Lamberton, spokesperson for Vermonters for Good Government, said. “This proposal goes much further than Roe v. Wade and it encompasses so much more than abortion that it’s not stated in Proposal 5. We’re leaving this into interpretation that goes beyond the voter and beyond the legislators.”
Vermonters for Good Government believes the language is too vague and that, as science evolves, this amendment won’t offer the protections it is selling.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England supports Prop 5. They said the language in the amendment is very clear.
“It covers access to contraception, access to sterilization, access to wanting to carry a pregnancy to term,” Eileen Sullivan, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, said. “We should all be able to make our own decisions about our health and wellbeing without the interference of politicians.”
If Proposal 5 were to make it to the ballot and pass, Vermont would be the first state in the nation to add a reproductive amendment to it’s state constitution.
