Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the latest blow for abortion opponents.
Glad people saw through the lies opponents were spewing. Ohio hasn’t had many blue victories, but I’m glad this was one.
Plus, recreational marijuana is passing as well. Sadly, that’s a statute and not amendment, so the dickheads in the legislature will probably fuck with it.
Ohio has had two blue victories this year alone! We aren't a deep red state, we are simply gerrymandered all to hell. The map was even declared illegal in the courts, and our dear government kept using the illegal maps anyways!
If the Republicans can ignore the laws why don't we just start ignoring their laws too. They want to shut down the government? Fucking ignore the crazy assholes. Simply refuse to lets a minority opinion dictate anything.
That one person that downvoted this, I hope you stub your toe. I hope the next time you get excited about something, it falls through. I hope you get thirsty and all you can drink is Dasani.
You think MAGA is voting for abortion? I'd like to see the numbers on that. I know some of them just want to watch everything burn but I also think most MAGA are aligned with the christo-fascists.
go to conservative spaces now and watch them try to walk "ABORTION IS MURDER, LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION" back to "well from the beginning our goal was only ever to return sovereignty to the states."
they stand for nothing, and they're getting what they deserve but not nearly enough of it
Lmao one of the lawmakers in the article is still talking about protecting innocent lives, and that "this isn't over". This, in case the GOP was wondering, is why they keep losing on abortion
Fr, they're great at quietly changing their minds, but I gotta at least hope the "abortion is baby genocide" crowd is gonna have some trouble coming back from that
Ohio is not an expensive place to move to comparatively, not yet anyway. I think this gives a lot of hope and options to people living around Ohio to move there for the safety and the grass. These two laws together, despite the GOPs best efforts, make Ohio an attractive option and the states gonna see growth as people and buisness take advantage of that.
The amount of people that move simply for abortion laws is miniscule. It's such a small part of the lives of even the people that opt for abortions, that it is of little consideration.
Marijuana on the other hand, might actually have an effect on the population because drugs are a major part of a lot of peoples lives.
While not the only reason, my partner and I moved to WA from a red state so that my partner would feel safe. I also know other people that did the same. So your first point is at least slightly incorrect, if not completely. Do you have a uterus that certain state governments want control over? If not, maybe you shouldn't speak on this.
marijuana is and has always been effectively legal. think of how many people you know that smoke every day. how many of them have actually been busted? the laws against marijuana were never about stopping people from smoking marijuana. they're about making something tons of people do illegal so that they can:
investigate, harass and disrupt inconvenient people whenever they want to for suspicion of doing something the majority of people do
tack on additional charges and jailtime in order to funnel more profits to private prisons and the major orgs that contract out prison slave labor
Off Lemmy I've already been assured by several dickhead accelerationists that this is actually bad, because it's against the rules to successfully progress a liberal democracy when the One Right Way to effect change is revolution only. They'd rather people suffer more if it meant an end to capitalism, revolting "ends justify the means" mentality.
It's because these people don't actually care about socialism or equality. You can tell, because they don't ever talk about those things. It's all's fantasizing about murdering their neighbors and enslaving workers under their system of autocracy in the name of their socialist God.
nope, as soon as it 'officially' passes (how many recounts you think? would you place wagers on an over-under of five?) it's part of the Ohio constitution. they'd have to run a second ammendment through to vacate it. and that won't happen.
The bulk of us don't take crazy pills, we're just gerrymandered to high hell (I mean read the signs, we literally say it on our freeways...). All it really takes to see that is that whenever something goes to the polls that isn't tied to districts we tend to lean more towards personal freedom.
Lots of good people out that way, glad their voices are finally beating out the others. All the good people I've met there didn't hesitate to tell me about how many not so good people there are there too though.