
Vermonters! Prop 5 (Article 22) is going to be on the ballot in November!
This proposed State Constitutional Amendment would:
• Guarantee unregulated late-term abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy up to the day of birth.
• Give the same rights, currently protected for women, to men and children.
• Permanently bar “conscience protection” for healthcare workers, meaning more doctors and nurses would avoid working in Vermont, creating more staffing shortages.
• Eliminate parental rights concerning our children’s sexual and gender related choices.
• Prevent future law makers from passing or changing laws, limitations, or regulations, abdicating legislative authority to courts, and removing voters voices from having any say in matters that affect us all.
• And more… We need to stop this from becoming the law of our land!

The word choices made by the legislature matter, and the vague language will have a huge impact in the every day lives of all Vermonters. Click here to read more about the legal realities of Prop 5.
Here’s what you can to do help:
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Our recent video on one of the big issues with Prop 5:
Vermonters for Good Government:

“We’re passionate about ensuring future generations have the ability to democratically debate questions about when life begins and personal freedoms – Article 22 would prevent that.”

“We’re committed to ensuring reproductive freedom is balanced with the concerns of parents, health care workers, and the health of our medical system – Article 22 would prevent that.”

“We believe Vermont voters oppose Late-term, Anything-goes abortion – Article 22 would prevent them from regulating it.”
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Proposal 5 is:
Click on the words below to learn more.
- Clear Selection
- Ambiguous
- Consequential
- Dangerous
- Exploitative
- Impossible
- Inhumane
- Injurious
- Irresponsible
- Tragic
- Unacceptable
- Undefined
- Unequitable
- Unlimited
- Unnecessary
- Unpredictable
- Unregulated
- Unsupported
- Untried
- Unwise
- Vague
Proposal 5 is a wedge between parent and child that creates risks for a life-time. Most urgently, Proposal 5 and those who support it are, willingly or unwittingly, supporting harm to parental legal rights, parent-child relationships, and child safety. The generational harm will be devastating to a healthy Vermont.
Annisa Lamberton, founding member of Vermont Family Alliance
“The Reproductive Liberty Amendment would guarantee ALL people in Vermont the right to become pregnant and carry a pregnancy to term; choose abortion; choose or refuse sterilization; and to choose or refuse contraception.”
Vermonters for Good Government
Reproductive rights are not limited to abortion.
Norman Smith, Attorney at Law
The lack of clarity and definition in Proposal 5 leaves the words ‘personal reproductive autonomy’ open to interpretation. Taken broadly, these words can encompass…polygamy, pedophilia, child pornography, rape, infanticide, abortion through nine months by minors without parental notification, human trafficking, and prostitution. It is the duty of the legislative body to write proposals in a way that does not force the people of Vermont to trust that a judge agrees with the people’s intended interpretation of ‘personal reproductive autonomy.”
Mary Szoch, Director of the Center for Life and Human Dignity
According to Planned Parenthood of Vermont’s spokesperson, Proposal 5 “will open up a range of different questions for future lawmakers.....for years to come.”
Paige Feeser, Public Affairs Organizer for Planned Parenthood, 7/30/2020
“(The term) isn’t actually defined, and is far broader that just those categories – open to very broad future interpretation in ways not imagined or intended currently,” Donahue said in a statement to CNN.
State Rep. Anne Donahue
Vermont law currently prevents, in statute, any regulation or restriction on the practice of abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy and allows no rights or protections for an unborn child until birth.
Vermonters for Good Government
Vermont medical examiners view the loss of a fetus after 20 week gestation as a death and they will issue a birth and death certificate to the parents. In addition, Vermont also has specific regulations around the burial of an unborn child after 20 weeks gestation. (link)
However, the language in Article 22, if adopted, would prevent ANY protections for an unborn baby until birth. At just 22 weeks gestation, a fetus can feel pain and is capable of living independently of his or her mother. Science and technology have advanced to the point where babies can routinely be saved earlier and earlier in pregnancy. Article 22 ignores the science and medical advances.
Vermonters for Good Government
“People on both sides of the debate over abortion know that “reproductive autonomy” is publicly understood to be a way of referring to an unlimited abortion license, that is, elective abortion permitted through the entire nine months of gestation and pregnancy up to and including the process of birth.”
Robert P. George, Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
This proposal takes away the voice of the Vermonters. The people of Vermont deserve to know what they are voting for and to have a voice in the future of their state government. As such, I urge you to reject Proposal 5. The lack of clarity and definition in Proposal 5 leaves the words ‘personal reproductive autonomy’ open to interpretation. Taken broadly, these words can encompass…polygamy, pedophilia, child pornography, rape, infanticide, abortion through nine months by minors without parental notification, human trafficking, and prostitution. It is the duty of the legislative body to write proposals in a way that does not force the people of Vermont to trust that a judge agrees with the people’s intended interpretation of ‘personal reproductive autonomy.”
Mary Szoch, Director of the Center for Life and Human Dignity
Despite the strong pro-choice sentiment in Vermont, more than half support establishing health and safety regulations for abortion clinics (54%), requiring a doctor or clinic to inform women about fetal development and alternatives to abortion before performing the procedure (55%), and requiring a physician or clinic to notify a parent or legal guardian before performing an abortion on a minor (53%), and agree that it should be a crime in Vermont for someone to hurt or kill an unborn child in the womb, either
Vermonters for Good Government
“Everyone knows that the fetus is not nothing,” former Representative Cynthia Browning (Democrat) of Arlington, Vermont. Browning, who is pro-choice, voted against the proposed amendment on the House floor.
Cynthia Browning, former democratic representative
The phrase “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child” represented communities unified to build schools, serve on school boards, carpool to activities, fundraise, provide after school care, and even chauffeur kids home when temporarily forgotten by parents. Back in its conception, parents didn't fear exclusion from the village. If Proposal 5 is approved by the voters of Vermont, parents will be excluded from overseeing their minor children regarding personal reproductive rights. Proposal 5 will transfer parental rights to a world of unknown adult influencers hidden in the world of confidentiality.
Proposal 5 violates parental rights and responsibilities as described and upheld by the Vermont Supreme Court in 1998, “Parental rights and responsibilities are defined as those ‘rights and responsibilities related to a child's physical living arrangements, parent child contact, education, medical and dental care, religion, travel, and any other matter involving a child's welfare and upbringing.’ Id. § 664(1). Rights and responsibilities are comprised of ‘physical responsibility,’ and ‘legal responsibility,’ defined as ‘the rights and responsibilities to determine and control various matters affecting a child's welfare...includ[ing] but... not limited to education, medical and dental care, religion and travel arrangements.’ Id. § 664(1)(A).”
Carol Kauffman, Vergennes, is a concerned parent and member of Vermont Family Alliance
your voice matters! Sign the pLEDGE to send a message to montpelier that Prop. 5 goes too far!
Sign the pledge in opposition to amending the Vermont Constitution with the language of Article 22 as proposed in Prop 5.
Truth. Passion. Determination.