The Maryland General Assembly decided last Thursday to allow voters to determine whether or not to enshrine the intentional and direct killing of preborn humans as a ‘right’ in the state’s constitution. The pro-abortion constitutional amendment will appear on next year’s ballot.
According to Fox News, the House voted 98-38 in favor of allowing a vote on the pro-abortion amendment, and the Senate secured the three-fifths margin it needed to allow the amendment to appear on the ballot.
The 2024 referendum is expected to pass, and is one of many pro-abortion measures that have advanced in Maryland this legislative session. Pro-abortion state lawmakers have approved legislation to protect abortionists from pro-life laws passed in other states, and to allow the hiding of abortion procedures in digital medical records.
Gov. Wes Moore (D) has vowed to sign both of these bills, stating he wants Maryland to be a “safe haven for abortion.”
According to The Washington Post, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll in September 2022 found that 78% of Maryland voters support a state constitutional amendment claiming a right to abortion.
Currently, abortion is protected in Maryland up until the arbitrary age of viability and in certain situations after viability, though abortion is never medically necessary. There is never a need to kill the preborn child even to save the life of the mother. Preterm induction, emergency C-section, and surgery for ectopic pregnancies are not induced abortions, which carry the intent of causing the child’s death. When these procedures are used to save the mother’s life or the lives of both mother and child, they are not induced abortions.
Three other states have made induced abortion — the direct, intentional, and non-medically necessary killing of preborn human beings — a ‘right’ in their respective constitutions: California, Vermont, and Michigan. Each measure passed in November. Connecticut is also considering such changes to its constitution. Meanwhile, four states prohibit abortion based on their constitutions: Alabama, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
