MicroWaveAug 9, 2023

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights

https://lemmy.world/post/2914041

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadSpendrillAug 9, 2023
Who’da thunk that making women have their rapists’ babies would be a nationally unpopular proposition? One could never have foreseen such a thing.
Show threadcaptainlezbianAug 9, 2023
Not just women, children too. Part of how this was sold was as a “parent’s rights” thing to enable preventing minors from having abortions without parental consent.
Show threadSpendrillAug 9, 2023

‘If I didn’t want my daughter to have a baby I wouldn’t have impregnated her in the first place.’

I think that if you’re in a position to make policy and your opponents are writing jokes like the one above, then surely you should be thinking about what you’re doing… except I cannot feature that they’re really that stupid. One thing I have heard recently is the idea that segregationists are segregating themselves by trying to make red states impossibly toxic to live in for anyone from the outgroups.

Show threadeestileibAug 9, 2023
That’s not a theory, DeSantis outright says it.
Show threadSpendrill
Oh fuck, does he? Has he started talking about secession yet?
Aug 9, 2023 at 5:03pmWeb
Show threadlittlecoltAug 9, 2023
I’m hoping for an eventual situation like in the Metalocalypse episode “Dethgov”