We usually vote on road bonds and things like that, but we don’t vote on contentious issues like this. It would be the first time in 100 years we would be taking away a right.

Margaret Chapman Pomponio, CEO of WVFree, an advocacy group campaigning against a West Virginia ballot measure that would make it illegal to receive or perform an abortion. If passed, the law could not be enforced unless Roe v. Wade is overturned or severely gutted.