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.
If the Republicans can ignore the laws why don't we just start ignoring their laws too.
Because the government has a monopoly on force, and you will get arrested and put in jail.
Will they realize the real take away here: when you give the voters power they don't want abortion bans. They want the opposite.
The Ohio Republican party is going to try to find any way they can to stop this from taking effect, but when will they finally realize that abortion rights are popular? When will they realize overturning RoevWade is an albatross around their neck? They just got destroyed in a red state. It will happen every time it comes up to a vote. They just don't get it.
Democrats should try to get an amendment like this on every single ballot for 2024 because it would lead to a bloodbath.
The result from this vote tells me that Ohio isn't red out of pure population ideology but because of unfair voting districts.
It's more complicated than that. Gerrymandering doesn't affect state-level votes like governor or president.
I think what this reveals more is that there are a non-trivial amount of voters who generally support Republicans but who will support abortion rights when asked specifically about them, even if they wouldn't otherwise vote for a Democrat.
They don't care what people want.
they care about what a fascistic minority wants that could help them get into power
Thank you, voters of Ohio, from a woman in Texas!!!!
Gave me hope to see last night! I was so fucking stoked! I'm so happy for you Ohio!
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.
Ohio won't host your incest babies. Good on you, Ohio.
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
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.
As expected it took only hours for the Rs in the statehouse to say they will fight the voters...yet again. Time to vote them all out at every level.
Big paternalistic authoritarian energy. "Those damn voters just don't know what's good for them!"
And they do the usual gaslighting and tell us we've been duped by people who are only looking out for themselves, which is also a projection.
And you do?
Well to be fair, they don't like the idea of democracy and freedom so this is what they do. (shrug)
#AbortionIsHealthcare. ✊
FUCK! YES! FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS!! Holy cow, that was a desert, waiting.
Rare Ohio W
Honestly, if Ohio let the people directly decide more often it would be a lot less rare.
Great news!
The universe isn't this nice. I'm waiting for the bad news.
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.
Those people have such a lust for violence and don't care that the poor people they claim to be fighting for will be the ones who suffer most
"Why won't you die so I can avenge you‽"
Idk seems like referendums work so we don't need all that other stuff.
The weed issue also passed but the legislature may just ignore the will of the people. I don’t think they can do anything about this though.
Hell Yes. To quote Jay " ...me and Bob are pro choice. A woman's body is her own fucking business!"
What's going on in Ohio lately? Did everyone stop taking their crazy pills?
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.
Fucking well done Ohio.
Can’t even take away reproductive rights in ohio 💀
Recreational weed was on the same ballot and both passed. Ohio actually managed to do two things right, which is a pleasant change of pace.
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