Right wingers are correctly starting to freak the fuck out over abortion access referenda appearing on the ballot in several states next November and are mounting counteroffensives in both courts and on the streets to stop the tide of reproductive rights being restored, Politico reports.

“Just because the abortion lobby wants to come in like carpetbaggers to get out the vote for Democrats, you don’t have to help them. Just because someone shoves a clipboard in your face, you don’t have to sign,” said Students for Life Chief Policy Strategist Kristi Hamrick of her group’s “decline to sign” anti-canvassing efforts in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Missouri. It’s not clear why the fuck a national pro-choice group’s canvassing is “carpetbagging” while a national forced-birth group’s effort to thwart it is somehow not. Others are encouraging supporters to waste the time of pro-choice canvassers however they can. “If you encounter petitioners, charitably take up their time talking about the dangerous petition, to prevent other people from engaging and signing,” wrote Nebraska Catholic Conference Executive Director Tom Venzor in a memo to fans.

In the courts it’s the usual song and dance, with Republican attorneys general fighting tooth and nail on the wording of proposed ballot measures, though what happened this year in Ohio proved that track pretty ineffective, which is why Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is using the language in her lawsuit to get the Sunshine State’s expected 2024 measure off the ballot completely.

Americans United for Life lawyer Steve Aden said the quiet part out loud, telling Politico that “all options should be on the table. Because we believe that abortion is truly about the right to life of human individuals in the womb, we don’t believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.”