{"id":3895,"date":"2023-01-05T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:48:30","slug":"our-rights-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/2023\/01\/05\/our-rights-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Rights under Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We applaud the people of Kansas for rejecting an attempt to eliminate constitutional protection for abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A similar change is part of a package of amendments in PA&#8217;s SB106 along with Voter ID, an increase in the voting age to 21, and a change to how the Lieutenant Governor is chosen.  It requires passage a second time in a different session of the assembly but could be on the ballot for voter approval as early as the 2023 Primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be keeping a close watch on this situation and will advise voters here and in our newsletter as the situation develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had hoped that the majority achieved in the assembly by Democrats would put this to rest.  However, 3 seats require a Special Election which has been scheduled for Feb 7th.  Until those seats are filled, the Republicans still have a majority and an independent speaker was chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We applaud the people of Kansas for rejecting an attempt to eliminate constitutional protection for abortion. A similar change is part of a package of amendments in PA&#8217;s SB106 along with Voter ID, an increase in the voting age to 21, and a change to how the Lieutenant Governor is chosen. It requires passage a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9847,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/9847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}