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.