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History-making Vote on November 6
Please vote for Amendment 1 on November 6. It says: “Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.” Its purpose is to cleanse our state constitution from abortion and allow the state legislature to exercise its appropriate responsibility for control over the funding of abortion. Over the years, West Virginia taxpayers have paid nearly $10,000,000 for 35,000 abortions. However, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1980 in Harris v. McRae that the Court’s 1973 abortion decisions created a right to abortion, not a government entitlement, under the federal constitution. Since then, federal Medicaid dollars have been limited to the funding of abortions only in cases that threaten the life of the mother or in rape and incest. Because of this Hyde Amendment, an estimated two million people are alive today. Following passage of Amendment 1, women in West Virginia will still be able to have abortions under the federal constitution. When the law adjudicated under the 1993 West Virginia Supreme Court Decision Panepinto goes back into effect, our tax dollars will be limited to paying for abortion only in the cases of life of the mother, medical emergency, reported rape and incest and fetal anomaly. When Amendment 1 passes in November, it will eliminate the Panepinto funding requirement and prevent future Judges from “finding” abortion rights in the West Virginia Constitution. The dedicated Yeson1wv. com website features a store. Please visit it to get your Yeson1 t-shirts, buttons, window clings, yard signs and even a retractable banner. Look for the facebook page at Vote Yes on 1 so you can begin to LIKE and SHARE the posts featured there. The Yeson1 Speakers Bureau is also in operation. Contact the office at info@wvforlife.org or 304-594-9845 to schedule a speaker, preferably before October 16 as that is the voter registration deadline. If ever there was a time to vote, this is it!