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.

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I only wish it was no by 60% then it would be denied by their own standards.

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By their standards, it only needed to be no by 40%

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Way to go Ohio!

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Keep up this energy!

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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.

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It’s really spooky how the GOP doesn’t seem to really care about popular opinion anymore.

That doesn’t end anywhere good.

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Ohio GOP hasn’t cared about the rule of law for as long as I can remember. More famously, they were ordered to draw fair voting maps multiple times running into 2016, and kept submitting maps that didn’t even come close to passing muster, including submitting the exact same map twice AND submitting the current voting map.

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This goes beyond not caring about the rule of law - they don’t even care about what voters want! In a democracy that has consequences.

They seem to think that they’re beyond democratic accountability entirely and can ignore popular opinion and ignore voter support.

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Who’da thunk that making women have their rapists’ babies would be a nationally unpopular proposition? One could never have foreseen such a thing.

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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.

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‘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.

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That’s true, but also it’s important to remember that part of that goal is to brutally suppress certain out groups. Yes they want trans people to flee, so their child doesn’t have a chance of learning that transitioning is a life path open to them. They want gay people who can’t pretend to be straight gone so every bisexual can be pressured into a hetero relationship. And when those who can leave are gone the women will be forced into submission, sometimes as child brides (multiple Republican states including West Virginia have rejected laws to ban child marriage with parental consent). The trans and gay people left will be criminals forced into sex work (conservative politicians and demagogues utilizing queer sex work isn’t just an old joke, it’s a lot of stories we tell each other). And the people of color and poor white people will be pushed into labor at young ages with low wages.

Beyond the social stuff, Ohio isn’t right to work. Unions can require membership as a condition of employment here. That right is always at risk and once Democrats are driven away it’ll be gone quite quickly.

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That’s not a theory, DeSantis outright says it.

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