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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Lula sees the potential on this issue: when it comes to international politics, Brazil can contribute just so little compared to countries like Europe, the US… but a way to turn Brazil into the main actor in the global stage is to talk about protecting the Amazon, and make Brazil lead an initiative that takes all the Amazon countries into account to protect the rainforest and that is funded by the developed world.

– Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia is looking for any way to seize the information initiative, to try to influence the scenario plans for Ukraine’s counteroffensive, to raise doubts, compromise previous ideas and frighten with their ‘awareness.’ But these are just standard elements of the Russian intelligence’s operational game and nothing more. It has nothing to do with Ukraine’s real plans.

– Mykhailo Podolyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If( our study) is replicated, we may have found a potential biological basis for the results of the Women’s Health Initiative clinical trial, which found women 65 and above were more likely to develop dementia later in life if they took that one type of hormone therapy.

– Gillian Coughlan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be honest, at first, I was very hesitant when this idea was discussed, my mind keeps telling me to back off. I mean, let’s be real here, it was too ambitious to say the least. Like, how can a small group of students from the Pacific Region convince the majority of the UN members to support this unique initiative?

– Cynthia Houniuhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives, like any voluntary initiative, whether it’s successful will really depend on how much the US government and others – nonprofits, civil society organizations – really hold industry accountable for that.

– Laura Cobb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, Russia is again slow-walking the export of food from Ukraine and with the Black Sea initiative set to expire on March 18 Russia has refused to commit to renewing it.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beijing’s Golden Share initiative is about embedding the Chinese Communist Party within the nerve-centers of China’s most important internet-content companies, it’s about achieving pervasive surveillance, censorship and policing capabilities from the inside out.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our biggest focus in addition to our national march is our state march initiative, in 2022, we were in five states. This year, in 2023, we're doubling that: we'll be in ten states. And we plan, over the course of the next 5 to 7 years, to be in all 50 states.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As with other ballot initiatives across the country, pro-abortion forces vastly outspent pro-life forces to drive dishonest messages to confuse the voters, in Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth.

– Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth.

– Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment.

– Rick Weiland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

– Christopher McCandless

added by Normando
1 year ago

Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative.

– Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The( initiative) is not even a decade old yet. Labeling it a failure because of delayed or distressed projects would be premature and simplistic, as would deeming it a success for Chinese global influence.

– Austin Strange

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[Veterans] are reliable, focused, initiated, they have the initiative and the commitment and more importantly, they have the adaptability to fit into pretty much any role.

– Jim Lorraine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We don't have any other choice left but to move forward -- move to liberate all of our territories, we need to kick the invaders out of the Ukrainian regions. Though the width of the frontlines is as long as over 2,5000 km, we feel that we hold the strategic initiative.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many challenges our society is facing right now that have long-term effects for generations to come. With this research initiative, we can address these issues in a way that will encourage and empower people to make positive, purposeful change.

– Anne Curzan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It would be a smart strategic initiative, retailers are stuck with excess inventory of unprecedented levels. They can't afford to take back even more of it.

– Burt Flickinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of tires were being accumulated and were causing problems, such as [from] mosquitoes [and] rodents, so basically the idea of the Tires to Trails initiative came in line with the cleanup and utilizing those tires.

– David Salyers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This whole initiative was founded upon the disconnect I’ve seen over the years in the industry where we have hunters and anglers in the state of Wyoming [who] are footing a majority of the bill for wildlife management ... and conservation as well.

– Taylor Phillips

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Good Jobs Initiative is one way the Department of Labor can help improve job quality across our economy. Our work speaks directly to what workers are telling us -- that improving the quality of jobs is an economic imperative, by directly engaging with businesses across all industries, we're uplifting best practices to recruit and retain workers in the current labor market. Patterns of work in America are changing, and the Department of Labor is here to support workers and companies through those changes.

– Marty Walsh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though a great initiative, this bill, I worry, might become somewhat a little like Duterte's war on drugs : catch whoever you can, to show the accomplishment.

– Encinas Franco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

None of our tenure here are we going to be able to move the ball down on the road on any major initiative.

– Patrick Roddy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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