Ohio’s new constitutional projections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. That prospect seems increasingly uncertain.
Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided the issue, raising questions about how and when the amendment will be implemented.
The amendment declared an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions” and passed with a strong 57% majority. It was the seventh straight victory in statewide votes for supporters of abortion access nationally since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned constitutional protections.
But the amendment did not repeal any existing Ohio laws, providing an opening for Republican elected officials and anti-abortion groups to renew their efforts to halt, delay or significantly water it down.
America: Here you can vote for what you think is best! Democracy!
Also America: No wait not like that
Bush Jr. - got in after losing the popular vote.
Trump - got in after losing the popular vote.
Is it any wonder Republicans hate democracy?
multiple studies have shown bush would have lost 2000 had his daddy’s and reagan’s scotus not intervened.
And Trump would have lost in 2016 if we didn’t have an archaic electoral college system that should be abolished. How can people call America a democracy when the will of the people doesn’t matter? Trump says it’s all rigged, and he’s right. It’s rigged. In his favor.
Watched one of them (can’t remember who, it doesn’t matter.)say that this abortion measure passing is why complete democracy is a bad idea.
Bush even lost the electoral college.
Courts decided that election. Not even the college.
Good way to get people to riot, and vote you out of office is to ignore your constituents direct vote.
That’s why the Christofascists are so gung-ho about voter suppression. Can’t vote you out if the rubes can’t vote!
The problem is that the conservative minority has a stranglehold on the state legislature thanks to extreme gerrymandering.
Fortunately for them they also get away with ignoring our anti gerrymandering constitutional amendment. Every district in Ohio is either a pack district or a crack district.
Republicans were successful in doing that in Florida by blocking most ex cons from voting. There was no mention in the amendment about court fees. Now because of that horse shit, most of them still cannot vote.
One of my employees fell hard for an ultra-religious girl from there. She made him read through Revelations when he went out to visit her, and she was very involved in campaigning against abortion rights. Naturally, I thought she sounded like a stupid bitch, and I was very pleased to hear that their relationship crashed and burned and she lost the abortion vote, all within the span of two weeks.
So much for the decades of republicans claiming they wanted voters at the state level to decide about abortion.
I don’t think they ever claimed they wanted voters at the state level to decide it, at least not directly. They prefer the legislators do it.
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