Oregon Right to Refuse Medical Procedures Initiative (2018)
| Oregon Right to Refuse Medical Procedures Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Healthcare | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Right to Refuse Medical Procedures Initiative (#7) was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have provided for a constitutional right of individuals to refuse medical procedures.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article I, Oregon Constitution
The proposed amendment would have added a new section to Article I of the Oregon Constitution.
Full text
The full text is available here
Path to the ballot
Paul Thomas, Gregory Clark, and Stacy Cayce filed the proposal with the Oregon secretary of state on September 14, 2016. The initiative was cleared for circulation on January 31, 2018.[2] Oregon requires that 1,000 signatures be submitted before a ballot title is drafted.
Petitions were required to collect 117,578 valid signatures to get their initiative on the ballot. Signatures for initiatives needed to be submitted four months prior to the election on November 6, 2018, which was July 6, 2018.
Proponents of the measure did not submit signatures before the signature deadline.[3]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Complete Text of Initiative," accessed October 23, 2016
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Initiative 7," accessed October 23, 2016
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, Telephone communication with Oregon Secretary of State's office, July 9, 2018.
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