Voters in Ohio, by a margin of 3 to 2, rejected a Republican-supported amendment to the state constitution that would have made it much harder to pass constitutional amendments in the future.
It’s an absolutely wondrous thing, isn’t it? Men and women are fed up in those states with the crazies at the helm. So many groups in Ohio and throughout the country were responsible for this win. Many people wrote postcards and phoned registered voters. Big applause for democracy!!
Wooohooo. My wife and I are PROUD to be NO voters and writers of many postcards!!! Let's keep the ball rolling across the country!!! Lots of people had boots on the ground for this!!
Nonsense! Abortion abortion abortion. Unapologetically, uneuphemistically, abortion. If I were of an age, i'd take pills or see an ob/gyn for an abortion—not for a "choice." Abortion is a medical procedure. (Forced birth is in a different category. It is what it is.)
You are correct that abortion is a medical procedure. As with many medical procedures, it can be emergent, indicated, or elective. In the case of an elective abortion, it is chosen, just as you might choose whether to have a full knee replacement or to live with increasing challenges. Pain either way; one increases future choice, and one decreases them. It's not a choice like whether to wear a red dress or a green one to a party.
We all make choices in our lives, and we live with them.
When after a long absence I visited the town where I went to high school I asked one old friend about another. "Oh, she's not at all good." Uh-oh, my sister-in-law explained later. That means she's nearly dead. Quaint, I guess, but I loathe reality prettied up as euphemism.
As many as you you want, as often as you want, no reason needed other than you want it.
Granted, some patients will not have that cavalier a posture. Others may not want one at all, ever. All that's fine too, goes without saying, and is actually enveloped within the rubric above.
Similarly, pro-voting. Doesn't mean you have to do it (though I wish you would), but you can, and have an unalienable right to do it, without accounting to anyone but yourself
"As many as you you want, as often as you want, no reason needed other than you want it.
"Granted, some patients will not have that cavalier a posture."
Some patients? I think you can feel sure no woman will ever accuse you of thinking like a woman. Jesse Kornbluth's comment is to the point. But thanks for your reassurances.
Y'all have more good days coming, because the Republicans are gonna take a scalding hot bath in 2024 based primarily on this issue. It was written in the stars when these jerk Justices decided to be all in with the crazy, political Republicans.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT THINGS THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!! Not just for Ohio but for the entire country. Trying to tell any person what they can and cannot do with their body is going backlash the Republicans (hopefully into OBLIVION!).
I hope the young people of the United States resign what is left of the conservatives in this country to the dust bin of history. They made their shitty bed and long may they lie in it.
That's ok we are all human, and speaking for myself, it's hard to write with passion and not have some small errors. I correct things I write all of the time.
As an Ohio native who fled at 18, I have been looking back and thinking. The state is a mix of things but it seems to be impelled by a curious tropism. It swings to the right or left, but when things have moved too far from the center right, it moves right back into its comfort zone, from the post industrial Rust Belt to the rural counties.
Thank you I was concerned about this since I was made aware that the, you guessed it. The Republicans. We’re changing the voting locations. At the last minute. If you can’t win cheat. TRUMP 20-24 years 😀
Glad you're back on the grid, and providing bedtime reading, after a raucous dinner-post.
Why do I get the feeling we're on a rocket-ship bound for Elsewhere? Could it be the dizziness or the nausea, of the dreaded Heebie-geebies? Sounds suspicious!
Gee, I miss the days when there were monsters in the closets and Mom read us from A Child's Garden of Verses and told us about Marion Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi and Paul Robeson!
Education begins at home, guys.
Get busy making your position crystal clear while we still have voices!
From the beginning of polling after Roe, overall support for legal abortion has steadily been in the neighborhood of two-thirds among all cohorts polled. Kansas shouldn't have surprised anyone. I wish I could see Ohio as a general turning point, but I look at it as confirmation of a longstanding sentiment, independent of views on other topics. If euphoria generates momentum, however, bring it on.
It’s an absolutely wondrous thing, isn’t it? Men and women are fed up in those states with the crazies at the helm. So many groups in Ohio and throughout the country were responsible for this win. Many people wrote postcards and phoned registered voters. Big applause for democracy!!
Wooohooo. My wife and I are PROUD to be NO voters and writers of many postcards!!! Let's keep the ball rolling across the country!!! Lots of people had boots on the ground for this!!
Thank you for your work on behalf of women everywhere.
It’s not “pro abortion”. It’s pro choice. Big difference.
Agree. It’s also not pro-life, it’s forced birth.
Nonsense! Abortion abortion abortion. Unapologetically, uneuphemistically, abortion. If I were of an age, i'd take pills or see an ob/gyn for an abortion—not for a "choice." Abortion is a medical procedure. (Forced birth is in a different category. It is what it is.)
You are correct that abortion is a medical procedure. As with many medical procedures, it can be emergent, indicated, or elective. In the case of an elective abortion, it is chosen, just as you might choose whether to have a full knee replacement or to live with increasing challenges. Pain either way; one increases future choice, and one decreases them. It's not a choice like whether to wear a red dress or a green one to a party.
We all make choices in our lives, and we live with them.
When after a long absence I visited the town where I went to high school I asked one old friend about another. "Oh, she's not at all good." Uh-oh, my sister-in-law explained later. That means she's nearly dead. Quaint, I guess, but I loathe reality prettied up as euphemism.
Sometimes euphemism is helpful, sometimes perhaps somewhat compassionate, sometimes amusing.
In matters like healthcare self-determination it's probably not helpful.
Pro-abortion.
As many as you you want, as often as you want, no reason needed other than you want it.
Granted, some patients will not have that cavalier a posture. Others may not want one at all, ever. All that's fine too, goes without saying, and is actually enveloped within the rubric above.
Similarly, pro-voting. Doesn't mean you have to do it (though I wish you would), but you can, and have an unalienable right to do it, without accounting to anyone but yourself
Pro-abortion.
"As many as you you want, as often as you want, no reason needed other than you want it.
"Granted, some patients will not have that cavalier a posture."
Some patients? I think you can feel sure no woman will ever accuse you of thinking like a woman. Jesse Kornbluth's comment is to the point. But thanks for your reassurances.
Yes, point taken.
That was clunky of me. I regret failing to acknowledge the virtually inevitable accompanying grief.
Thank you.
Y'all have more good days coming, because the Republicans are gonna take a scalding hot bath in 2024 based primarily on this issue. It was written in the stars when these jerk Justices decided to be all in with the crazy, political Republicans.
White men telling women How It Is --- never a good look. But they're always surprised when it doesn't work, aren't they?
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT THINGS THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!!! Not just for Ohio but for the entire country. Trying to tell any person what they can and cannot do with their body is going backlash the Republicans (hopefully into OBLIVION!).
I hope the young people of the United States resign what is left of the conservatives in this country to the dust bin of history. They made their shitty bed and long may they lie in it.
This is the message to Republicans that keeps on giving: be careful what you wish for. Dobbs is now their nightmare.
That ten year old raped child who had to flee the state to receive an abortion cannot have helped the anti choicest.
And the word of the day is: bellwether.
Yesssssss.
Yippee yi yo ki yay! Fabulous new, thanks, Lucian!
Dang I should read before I send!
That's ok we are all human, and speaking for myself, it's hard to write with passion and not have some small errors. I correct things I write all of the time.
Let us hope this kind of voting momentum continues to November 2024!
Let us also WORK to make sure this kind of voting momentum continues through the next elections and beyond!
Thank you, Mr Trescott. Your message caught me on my way to bed. Such very, very good news!
Same. Sweet dreams for a change
As an Ohio native who fled at 18, I have been looking back and thinking. The state is a mix of things but it seems to be impelled by a curious tropism. It swings to the right or left, but when things have moved too far from the center right, it moves right back into its comfort zone, from the post industrial Rust Belt to the rural counties.
Thank you I was concerned about this since I was made aware that the, you guessed it. The Republicans. We’re changing the voting locations. At the last minute. If you can’t win cheat. TRUMP 20-24 years 😀
Glad you're back on the grid, and providing bedtime reading, after a raucous dinner-post.
Why do I get the feeling we're on a rocket-ship bound for Elsewhere? Could it be the dizziness or the nausea, of the dreaded Heebie-geebies? Sounds suspicious!
Gee, I miss the days when there were monsters in the closets and Mom read us from A Child's Garden of Verses and told us about Marion Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi and Paul Robeson!
Education begins at home, guys.
Get busy making your position crystal clear while we still have voices!
Chomp Chomp, how's that for a bite. Maybe the country is finally starting to wake up, I sure hope so.
From the beginning of polling after Roe, overall support for legal abortion has steadily been in the neighborhood of two-thirds among all cohorts polled. Kansas shouldn't have surprised anyone. I wish I could see Ohio as a general turning point, but I look at it as confirmation of a longstanding sentiment, independent of views on other topics. If euphoria generates momentum, however, bring it on.