amendment to the constitution, basically looking at trying to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution. at the same time republican lawmakers which make up the state legislature in ohio, they introduced a ballot measure which is taking place today. it basically says to voters, i don t want to get too much into the weeds but it says you voters, asked them if the threshold of vote required to amend the constitution should be raised to 60% at the moment if you want to amend this constitution is a simple majority of 51%. pro choice advocates are saying this is cynical. republicans are doing this because they look to other states and seeing that the move to enshrine abortion rights have been successful, other republican state so that they set this to date to make that schedule vote in november to enshrine abortion rights harder to enshrine abortion rights harder to pass. they are accusing them of
trying to rescue the rainforest south american leaders meet to come up with a plan to save the amazon. ahead of a referendum on abortion ohio residents vote on proposals to make it harder to change the state s constitution. pakistan s former prime minister imran khan is barred from holding public office for five years. saying farewell to one of ireland s favourite daughters thousands turn out for the funeral of the singer sinead o connor. and we re live from the fringe in edinburgh where comedians and theatrical performers have gathered for the festival 5 76th year. the former pakistani prime minister imran khan has been disqualified from politics for five years after receiving a prison sentence for corruption.
affirmed repeatedly. as opposed to sharing your vision for this future of the state, which is what voters we want to hear right now. not about the past, but about the future. looking at what happened in kansas, yesterday, i was actually thinking about michigan. voters in michigan might get the chance to cast ballots to change michigan s constitution in november, and codify the right to abortion. it s the opposite situation of kansas. the default position in kansas was that abortions were protected. the default position in michigan was that they are not protected by your state constitution, they are protected by your attorney general and the district attorney s, who will not prosecute them. tell me about how this goes. the michigan effort to protect abortion has got the signatures it needs for the ballot initiative to be validated, do you think happens next? right, now the signatures are indeed being validated. the petitioners did submit a record number, a record breaking number of
serious, significant offices like the governor for state of michigan, are more adept spreading lies about an election that has happened already. and as a result of, which has been both adjudicated and affirmed repeatedly. as opposed to sharing your vision for this future of the state, which is what voters we want to hear right now. not about the past, but about the future. looking at what happened in kansas, yesterday, i was actually thinking about michigan. voters in michigan might get the chance to cast ballots to change michigan s constitution in november, and codify the right to abortion. it s the opposite situation of kansas. the default position in kansas was that abortions were protected. the default position in michigan was that they are not protected by your state constitution, they are protected by your attorney general and the district attorney s, who will not
that s because it s lost a huge amount of the economic base. at one time, there were about 70,000 auto jobs in flint. 90% of those are gone. and of course, unemployment is high. poverty is high. despair is high. right. beneath that, there is a lot of determination to improve the community. you know, jarvis, gun laws, louisiana ranked has the fifth weakest gun laws. and the worst in gun violence, according to the center for american progress which looked at that correlation, it does not make sense. talk a little about gun legislation in louisiana. not only does it not make sense but it is actually getting worse. our state just passed an amendment to the constitution in november. that makes gun ownership a fundamental right in the state of louisiana. which puts on it par with freedom of speech and other laws.