Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers into session to take up a constitutional amendment allowing statewide referendums, citing support from Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for a public vote on the issue of abortion. The amendment would ultimately give the public a say in whether abortions should resume in Wisconsin by allowing residents to bring referendum questions to the ballot — a practice known as direct ballot initiatives that is not allowed in Wisconsin. But Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature immediately rejected the idea. If they had agreed, Wisconsin would have joined 26 states that allow referendum questions driven by the public. "At the end of the day, Wisconsinites and women in particular, are not only stripped of their reproductive freedom, they currently don't have a right to enact the change that needs to protect that freedom without having to get permission from the Legislature. That's just wrong and it's time to change that," Evers said.

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