After wins at the ballot, abortion rights groups want to 'put this to the people' - WOUB Public Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Hall, with the Fairness Project, acknowledges there's a risk that abortion rights advocates might overplay their hand by putting the issue on the ballot and possibly galvanizing voters who will elect anti-abortion candidates.
53% : The group's vice president of state affairs, Stephen Billy, said he believes abortion rights supporters want to "use the courts to try to take the issue out of voters' hands" by challenging anti-abortion laws in state court, and "use ballot initiatives as a way to thwart the legislative process." Advocates for bans on most abortions - including a wave of state laws passed in recent years that prohibit the procedure within the first several weeks - are at odds with public opinion, according to many years of polling.
51% : Where voters have direct access to the ballot box to register their preferences on abortion, they are registering them in ways that make clear that there is ... appetite for greater protections for reproductive rights."
44% : Many states lack a process for citizen-initiated ballot initiatives, leaving the question of abortion in the hands of their state lawmakers.
42% : While most Americans support some restrictions on abortion, most support access earlier in pregnancy.

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