• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All I saw in the article is that it involved matters related to fertility and childbearing. You said I was wrong. Tell me how.

    • TJD
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      1 year ago

      You seriously fail to understand how “everything related to those topics” is not a single issue bill?

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s all related to reproductive rights. Bills related to fundamental rights are often broad. For example the Civil Rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This is no different.

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          1 year ago

          So you agree it’s broad then? Cool. They should either pass individual ballot measures or fuck off. Just crying “rights” isn’t an excuse to sidestep good legislatige process

          • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Ballot measures are part of the legislative process. It’s broad because it needs to be. Reproductive rights touch on a lot of areas. It’s not a severable principle. It needs to be broad. The idea that it is overbroad is wrong.

            • TJD
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              1 year ago

              It’s entirely severable. The article clearly listed multiple distinct topics. Measures could easily be made for each separate one.

              • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                It could be, but it wouldn’t make sense as it wouldn’t serve the purpose of the ballot initiative. It’s all based on the same legal principle that the government does not have the right to infringe on an individual’s rights to reproductive control.

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                  1 year ago

                  I could make an entire encyclopedia of law just under one incredibly generic principle like you’re doing. It doesn’t make it into a specific policy just because it shares a theme.

                  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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                    1 year ago

                    Look at other ballot measures, like weed legalization. Those simple principles sprung an encyclopedia of laws too. ANY significant change to government policy will do that. Complexity is certainly not a reason to ignore the will of the voters.