Mississippi Advances Ban On Abortion Ballot Measures

Mississippi Today reports:

Mississippians would be prevented from placing an initiative on the ballot to change the state’s strict anti-abortion laws under a proposal passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives.

House Concurrent Resolution 11, which is still several legislative steps from becoming law, would give citizens the ability to gather signatures to propose new state laws or change existing laws, but it bans them from placing an issue on a statewide ballot about abortion.

The proposal barely passed the House. The measure required two-thirds of the chamber to support it. “That unborn child, that’s who we’re trying to protect,” said House Constitution Chairman Price Wallace, a Republican from Mendenhall.

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Wallace (photo above) made news in November 2020 when he tweeted a call for his state to “succeed” from the union after Biden was declared the winner.

The House passed a proposal Wednesday that would reinstate a ballot initiative process but prevent Mississippians from using it to change the state’s strict abortion ban. https://t.co/77crBFb2O7

— Mississippi Today (@MSTODAYnews) January 24, 2024

Mississippi State Rep Price Wallace tweeted that his state should secede from the US & Bcome its own country. 1st: MS is one of the poorest states in the union. As a country, it would be like Haiti. 2) Rep. Wallace represents the State well by misspelling “secede”. Point made! pic.twitter.com/iS27mwCcTb

— (((AS))) (@timetomove2) December 13, 2020