Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
While abortion was not directly on the special election ballot, the result marks the latest setback for Republicans in a conservative-leaning state who favor imposing tough restrictions on the procedure.
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.
Issue 1 was bad and I'm glad to see that the voters rejected it. That they did highlights the growing disconnect from Republican politicians and Republican voters on key issues like Abortion and Marijuana.
It's really spooky how the GOP doesn't seem to really care about popular opinion anymore.
That doesn't end anywhere good.
Who'da thunk that making women have their rapists' babies would be a nationally unpopular proposition? One could never have foreseen such a thing.
Ohio is about to get real cool. The abortion vote is going to enshrine it in the Ohio consitution, but along side it, legal marijuana is also on the same ballot.
Go register and go vote!
If Ohio gets legal abortion and legal marijuana, I will officially declare that it lose it's "most mediocre state" title
This. Is. Wendy’s!
Vote this coming election and don't let anyone tell you your vote doesn't matter!
If it didn't, the Republicans wouldn't be trying bullshit like this!
#VOTE EVERY ELECTION!
I only wish it was no by 60% then it would be denied by their own standards.
By their standards, it only needed to be no by 40%
Fuck the GOP and fuck anyone who supports that trash.
Every time something doesn’t go their way, they change the rules.
This quote from the resident is spot on!
Always good for people when the GOP/Nazi party loses.
Keep up this energy!
Because fuck you, GOP. That's why.
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This isn't just about abortion, I don't get why all the headlines are focusing on that
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It's really hard to see why this is a partisan issue, "let's make it hard to change the constitution" doesn't really sound like an inherently right-wing position.
The GOP regularly violates their own rules and norms whenever it suits them. Small government? Personal freedom?
It's because the right want to make sure the people can't go and do something like enshrine fundamental rights like reproductive freedom. Safe from their meddling
Headlines are focusing on abortion because this proposal was very clearly meant to make it substantially harder for the later vote on an amendment to protect abortion rights to succeed. The GOP knows that, when put to a direct vote, at least 50% will vote for legal abortion. But in a state like Ohio, 60% just might be a realistic ceiling.
I mean, do you really think it was a coincidence that this proposal was done in this particular moment?
The reason people focus on the abortion angle is because there is a vote to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution in November. This bill would apply to that vote. It would also make it harder to try again and harder to have grassroots initiatives in general.
I wonder why changing the constitution is suddenly an issue the Ohio GOP wants to vote on…
Amending the constitution is how states pass laws. This isn’t like the US constitution.
That and this issue was brought up by conservatives in proactive response to an abortion vote in November.
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