Two Referendums for 2024
State-wide – Proposition 32: Minimum Wage
San Francisco only – Proposition O: Supporting Reproductive Rights
The successful petition drive for “Changes to the State Children’s Services Program Initiative” was withdrawn by sponsors because they got suitable legislation instead.
The “Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects” was removed by the legislature (which initially passed it) on the thinking that the November ballot is too crowded to allow for ability to explain it to voters.
Proposition 6, Remove Involuntary Servitude as Punishment for Crime Amendment, should have been on our list because of our concern for finally abolishing slavery. It received so little publicity that we didn’t know about it. Ballotpedia doesn’t have an easily-found page listing all the referendums as it does on several other topics. Unfortunately, the amendment was defeated, 47-53%.
For the full list of referendums we’re tracking, see our home page.
Proposition 32
$18 Minimum Wage Initiative
on ballot: November 5, 2024
result: lost with 50.6% voting no
See the Ballotpedia page for updates and information.
See our blog post:
Social Programs to Help the Poor are Pro-life
PostRoeFuture.com, a statement drafted by prominent pro-life activists and signed by hundreds more, released and publicized January 19, 2023. It says that governments need “to eliminate or reduce the significant economic and social pressures that we know drive women to seek abortion in the first place. ”
Pro-life Commentary
on Minimum Wage
Pregnancy Resource Centers will have an easier time working with pregnant women for prenatal care and new mothers for women’s and children’s health care. The more women are earning, the more PRCs can help. Also, the more the father and other family members are earning, the more PRCs can help.
Yet for those who never cross paths with the PRCs, a minimum wage increase means they feel more supported in choosing life. They have more practical resources available.
San Francisco Proposition O
Supporting Reproductive Rights
on ballot: November 5, 2024
result: won with 82% yes
See Ballotpedia page
Status: Legislatively referred by city government; co-authored by mayor
This would loosen rules on abortion facilities and encourage referrals. It would require government signs outside of pregnancy help centers to state the services there are limited. This is ironic, since the abortion facilities actually offer fewer options but wouldn’t have the same note.
Opposition Organization:
VOTE NO ON San Francisco’s PROPOSITION O
From their website:
In a city that holds to the values of equality, nonviolence, and nondiscrimination, it is wrong to show prejudice towards health centers who for reasons of conscience do not refer for nor provide abortions. The clinics targeted by this ballot proposition provide low and no-cost health services, material aid, education and a support network. These small clinics are for the community and by the community. They are not operated by big business corporations. These centers deserve the right to continue serving the San Francisco Bay Area without fear of being treated differently. Stand up for the equality of community health centers and health care choices by VOTING NO ON SAN FRANCISCO PROPOSITION O.
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