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Bill to Prohibit Use of State Funds for Abortions Fails to Make Ballot

This is the second consecutive failed attempt, having gathered only 70,000 signatures in 2012. Bill to Prohibit Use of State Funds for Abortion's Fails to Make Ballot

(PORTLAND, Ore. ) - Proponents of a constitutional amendment to change long standing Oregon law by prohibiting the use of state funds for abortion services admitted in an e-mail to supporters yesterday that they could not generate enough support to gather the signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot.

"With a total of about 95,000 signatures in our hands now, we are well short of our goal of 150,000," chief petitioner Jeff Jimerson wrote to his supporters.