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Missouri voted in favor of abortion rights and paid sick leave. State Republicans just overturned them both

www.latintimes.com

Missouri Voted in Favor of Abortion Rights and Paid Sick Leave. State Republicans Just Overturned Them Both

Missouri Republicans were able to swiftly overturn abortion rights and paid sick leave using an uncommon procedural move, sparking outrage from Democrats and advocates who say the legislature has ignored the will of the people.

In November 2024, Missouri voters passed two major ballot initiatives: Amendment 3, which reinstated abortion rights lost after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Proposition A, which guaranteed paid sick leave for over 700,000 workers, the Missouri Independent reported.

Both passed with strong support across party lines, with Proposition A earning 58% of the vote. Since their passage, conservative lawmakers have worked to undermine or reverse the measures, citing economic concerns and ideological opposition.

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It kinda seems like the US' democracy is completely worthless.
- Its not a democracy
  
  I don't know if you're being sarcastic because of the state of things or if you're one of those "the US is a republic" people, but
  In fact, a constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy, not a direct democracy.
  https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic
  Yes it is.
  I mean it even touts itself as one of the best democracies in the world. That's like 80% of their war propaganda.
- Each state has its own Constitution, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.
  
  And they're all worthless.

- Absolutely bonkers to go “40% of the state voted for Trump, therefore everyone here wanted and deserves to have the measure they passed by 58% overturned.”
  
  Also there are a lot of misinformed voters, who were told that things like P2025 are just jokes to "trigger the left".

Republicans aren't fit to govern.
- Republicans aren't fit to ~~govern~~ breathe

Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.
They are not smart people.
- I swear a whole lot of men vote Republican because of marketing - meaning, some of them seem to think their penis will turn into a vagina if they vote Democratic.

Keep voting Republican, Missouri.

"We the people" folks must be ready to protest right?
Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.
- Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.

Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.

People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.

Wait... You guys don't even have paid sick leave....?
- We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
  The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
  
  Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
  cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it.. especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
  and they've taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it'll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
  
  And people get shamed for using it.
- Freedom to work while you're sick!
  
  I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol
  
  Yeah, but all the millions of the temporarily-embarrassed future multi-millionaires side with the obscenely parasitic rich, because my word, they might be part of the parasitic class too some day, and just imagine if a fraction of their wealth were to go toward someone getting reasonable health care coverage w/o being tied to a business, or having decent sick leave!
- Most states don't have mandatory sick leave, and there is no federal requirement. Here in WA we just got it in 2018. Before that it was up to each employer to decide if they wanted to offer it.

Nazis don’t believe in voting.

People still think votes matter? We lost that back in November.

Yeah, they're afraid of the backlash of recent events. There's nothing empathetic, or altruistic about it.

One of the worst states in the country easily
- There's a reason it sounds an awful lot like "Misery".
- Its the Florida of the midwest
  
  Could be worse. Could be Alabama.
  
  Nope... Florida sucks but no where as much as MO.
- Missouri's main import is people from California that moved there.
  
  mostly republicans, and good riddance too.
  theres still alot upper middle class and wealthy Rs in cali, living in nearby nevada while railing on californias"wokeness" but thier business depends on california clients.

you can spell missouri without misery.
- They just won't let you

Next election on the ballot.
Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.

Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.
They couldn't force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.
The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.
Hopefully they don't pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.

this is definitely LAMF
Missouri voted for a Republican government.
Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?

"But they represent the people".
Or, better yet - "we cannot have mere MAJORITIES of those people in the cities overriding the good people (read: white people) living in the hinterlands of the state/country - land should be just as important a factor as the number of people in a region..."

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