More than 20 Ohio counties rejected Issue 1 on Tuesday and most of them were suburban and exurban counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

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    1 year ago

    Did you see democrats voting to protect abortion? No. It was all posturing until roe was overturned.

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      Tell me how many years in the past 20 that democrats had enough votes in the house, and the Senate, and control of the white house. How much time did they actually have to pass laws with republican obstructionism? How would they pass laws that protect abortion when bad actors like Manchin and Sinema constantly interfere. What I did see was republicans systematically attack the privacy provisions from Roe up until their final success with the Dobbs decision. And I know you voted for them even though they made it abundantly clear what their intentions were. Constantly voting against your own interests under the guise of not being as cruel and heartless as the clowns you support.

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      Yes, and I do fault them for that, but only to an extent. Wedge issues are a valuable commodity, aren’t they? Republicans certainly kept banging on that pro-life drum (which supposedly no one really wanted and y’all were just yelling about to keep the rubes on board?) The flip side of that was that you all looked like extremists. (But Roe is dead and buried, so I guess you’re doing Nazis now. We all sort of hope that’s cosplay as well, but… look at Roe. Someone might start to suspect you’re serious.)

      I guess there is such a thing as a slippery slope.

      In any case, “you had 50 years to make a law about it” seems like a silly argument if the right in question is protected by the constitution. Every SC nominee in recent memory has testified to that specific question under oath.

      And what sort of law are we talking about here? It’s far easier to restrict a right than it is to affirm it. It honestly makes no sense practically or politically. The only way to attack that right was through a challenge to Roe, so that was how things went down. They had to overturn Roe. Took half a century. I guess that’s something.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure what you think I was wrong about? Your article has nothing to do with congress. Congress has to enact a federal law. SCOTUS said the same thing. Everyone knew this was coming since roe was enacted. Yet nobody put in a federal law to perfect abortion.