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Thank you. Since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs overturning Roe v. Wade, there have been very, very busy political activities in each and every state. A lot of it trying to get abortion ballot initiatives before the people in direct democracy and amend state constitutions to ensconce

row. Well, they've been largely successful, although with Tuesday's vote, there were three

pro-life wins.

Welcome back to Issues CETRA. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about the results of state abortion ballot initiatives, Dr. Michael Neu. He's visiting assistant professor of social research and political science at the Catholic

University of America. He's senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Paige Comstock

Cunningham Fellow with Americans United for Life and a columnist for National Review Online. Dr. New,

welcome. Thanks, Sammy. Much appreciated. Why have pro-lifers struggled to win direct democracy

referenda post Dobbs? There's a good body of research on direct democracy campaigns that shows that the side that

raises and spends the most money is at a big advantage.

And sadly, in most of these campaigns, supporters of legal abortion have outraised and outspent

pro-lifers.

There are a couple exceptions.

I'll talk about that later on today. But for the most part, the pro-lipment is badly kind of outraised and outfent pro-lifers. There are a couple exceptions. I'll talk about that later on today,

but for the most part, the pro-lip was badly outraised and outspent.

What does Donald Trump and the Republicans' decisive victory at the polls say about the effectiveness

of the Democrat all-in on abortion message? It shows the all-in on abortion message, frankly, was a failure.

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