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Question 6 was a voter referendum to allow voters to approve or reject a law passed by the Maryland General Assembly in 1991 to codify the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade . The referendum was approved by 61.7% of voters on November 3, 1992.
Roe v. Wade reached the Supreme Court when both sides appealed in 1970. It bypassed the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [82] because 28 USC § 1253 authorizes a direct appeal to the Supreme Court in cases concerning the granting or denial of a civil injunction decided by a three judge panel. [83] The case continued under the name Roe v.
Wade and guaranteed the right to an abortion, with 62 percent of voters approving the measure and 38 percent opposed. [2] In August 2018, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates Michael E. Busch endorsed efforts to codify the right to an abortion into the state constitution, citing fears that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its ruling ...
Supporters testified Wednesday that Maryland is seeing a rising demand on its abortion clinics, including from women from out of state, since the U.S. Supreme Court stuck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022
Maryland Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks speaks to supporters at a primary night party in Greenbelt, Md., on May 14 after defeating Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) in the Democratic primary.
Trump vs. Harris on abortion and the filibuster. In 2017, when he was president, Donald Trump called on Republicans in the Senate to end the filibuster so that the party could repeal the ...
Bartlett was born in Moorland, Kentucky, to Martha Minnick and Roscoe Gardner Bartlett. [2] He completed his early education in a one-room schoolhouse. He attended Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Maryland, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science in theology and biology and a minor in chemistry.
The election for the 6th district was the most competitive in the state. [52] Parrott would have been the first member of Congress from one of Maryland's three panhandle counties since J. Glenn Beall Jr., who represented the 6th district from 1969 to 1971, had he won the race. [53]