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The Maryland General Assembly decided<\/a> last Thursday to allow voters to determine whether or not to enshrine the intentional and direct killing of preborn humans as a ‘right’ in the state’s constitution. The pro-abortion constitutional amendment will appear on next year’s ballot.<\/p>\n

According to Fox News<\/a>, the House voted 98-38 in favor of allowing a vote on the pro-abortion amendment, and the Senate secured the three-fifths margin it needed to allow the amendment to appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n

The 2024 referendum is expected to pass, and is one of many pro-abortion measures that have advanced in Maryland this legislative session. Pro-abortion state lawmakers have approved legislation to protect abortionists from pro-life laws passed in other states, and to allow the hiding of abortion procedures in digital medical records.<\/p>\n

Gov. Wes Moore (D) has vowed to sign both of these bills, stating he wants Maryland to be a “safe haven for abortion.”<\/p>\n

\"Walgreens<\/a><\/p>\n

According to The Washington Post, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll in September 2022 found that 78% of Maryland voters support a state constitutional amendment claiming a right to abortion.<\/p>\n

Currently, abortion is protected in Maryland up until the arbitrary age of viability and in certain situations after viability, though abortion is never medically necessary. There is never a need to kill the preborn child even to save the life of the mother. Preterm induction, emergency C-section, and surgery for ectopic pregnancies are not induced abortions, which carry the intent<\/em> of causing the child’s death. When these procedures are used to save the mother’s life or the lives of both mother and child, they are not induced abortions.<\/p>\n

Three other states have made induced abortion \u2014 the direct, intentional, and non-medically necessary killing of preborn human beings \u2014 a ‘right’ in their respective constitutions: California, Vermont, and Michigan. Each measure passed in November. Connecticut is also considering such changes to its constitution. Meanwhile, four states prohibit abortion based on their constitutions: Alabama, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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