BALLOT MEASURE BRIEF SUMMARIES

Measure 105:

Measure 105 would repeal a decades-old state law that prohibits state agencies from using state funds or staff to track or seize people who have illegally immigrated to Oregon but have not violated any other laws.

What will change?

Oregon is currently known as a “sanctuary state.” This means that people who illegally immigrated to the United States cannot be arrested solely because of their illegal status. Measure 105 would renounce Oregon’s “sanctuary state” status, and allow law enforcement to more aggressively track or arrest individuals with illegal resident status.

Voting yes:

Voting “yes” would mean law enforcement would be permitted to use state funds to track and arrest illegal immigrants that aren’t in violation of any other laws.

Voting no:

Voting “no” would mean law enforcement would continue to be prohibited from using state funds or staff to track and arrest such immigrants.

Measure 106:

Measure 106 would keep public funds from being spent on abortions, except in the case of medical necessity (i.e., a pregnancy that might result in life-threatening injury to the mother). Under federal law, public funds would still be available to terminate pregnancies that are a result of incest or rape.

What will change?

Women will no longer be able to use state health insurance or health insurance funded by a public employer to obtain legal abortions.

Voting yes:

Voting “yes” would mean women would no longer be able to use publicly funded health insurance to receive legal abortions, with two key exceptions (noted above).

Voting no:

Voting “no” would mean that the current policy in the Oregon Constitution allowing women to receive public funds for legal abortions would not change.