Voting “Yes” on Prop 139 will mean adding taxpayer–funded abortion through all nine months, for any reason, into your state’s constitution. Once added, this will be very hard to remove or change.

Voting “No” on Prop 139 doesn’t repeal any existing state laws regarding abortion. All state laws protect the right to life-saving care for mothers, as well as in other extreme medical conditions, and most states allow abortion in cases of rape and incest.

Neither miscarriage nor ectopic pregnancies are treated through abortion and therefore are completely unrelated to Prop 139. Sadly, some political groups use these real, traumatic events to fearmonger voters into supporting something they otherwise would not (abortion up until birth). Necessary healthcare for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies is already legal in every state and widely available at hospitals and clinics.

Later-term abortions, or those done beyond 16 weeks‘ gestation (about 4 months of pregnancy), are invasive, surgical procedures that either dismember or poison the fetus. By this point in a baby’s gestation, the baby has a heartbeat, can feel the pain of the procedure, and has developed all internal organs. Later-term abortions are sold to women for anywhere from $500-$10,000 and are never medically necessary (the baby can simply be delivered whole and alive – see more below). Women are often unnecessarily sold these procedures for thousands of dollars by abortion industry leaders who have financial self-interest in keeping later-term abortions legal through ballot measures.