The Republicans in charge in Ohio brought this on themselves when they passed their absurd 6 week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest. The citizen-initiated constitutional amendment gathered steam as a direct result of that.
The lesson should be: when you pander to the extremists in your party, you actually accomplish the opposite of what you wanted.
Can’t wait to see what kind of word salad constitutional amendment Republicans come up with to try undo this. They’ll have to purposely obfuscate the true intent of their amendment and then lie about it to trick people into voting for it.
“2024 - Issue 1 - Constitutional amendment to not not revoke women’s right to reproductive care”
Or they do what they’ve been doing, ham up the cruelty and be overtly misogynistic.
These people don’t learn from their mistakes and with the modern air of being overtly everything shitty imaginable, they won’t stop with it, it’s what MAGA demands of them.
And until the GOP gets utterly trashed across the US, they will keep doing what MAGA tells them to do.
Trump has capture their most extremist base and not a single one of them can win on being moderate anymore.
I think everyone is starting to see all of the worst case scenarios that Pro-choice have been saying for years are all true after the reversal of Roe. Abortions are needed and removing them just leads to death and pain. Hopefully this is the start of a wave that enshrines into the law of the land and hopefully as part of constructional right to privacy and self determination.
Fuck yeah!
That makes the country as a whole 7/7 in protecting state level abortion rights. As an Ohioan I breathe a sigh of relief today.
Feels like the world is slowly piecing itself back together after republicans destroyed Roe v. Wade.
But God, is this such a mess and there is so much that needs to be done.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Ohio’s resounding support for this constitutional amendment reaffirms Democratic priorities and sends a strong message to the state GOP that reproductive rights are non-negotiable,” she said in a statement.
Opponents had argued that the amendment would threaten parental rights, allow unrestricted gender surgeries for minors and revive “partial birth” abortions, which are federally banned.
Public polling shows about two-thirds of Americans say abortion should generally be legal in the earliest stages of pregnancy, a sentiment that has been underscored in both Democratic and deeply Republican states since the justices overturned Roe in June 2022.
Before the Ohio vote, statewide initiatives in California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont had either affirmed abortion access or turned back attempts to undermine the right.
Previously, state Senate President Matt Huffman, a Republican, has suggested that lawmakers could come back with another proposed amendment next year that would undo Issue 1, although they would have only a six-week window after Election Day to get it on the 2024 primary ballot.
Issue 1 specifically declared an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including birth control, fertility treatments, miscarriage and abortion.
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Ohios’s so gerrymandered that stuff like this will continue to pass but the state assembly is going to continue to stay in the hands of the right for a while to come.
