Ohio voters passed Issue 1, enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution, in 2023. However, doctors are still unsure how to apply it, and the amendment faces legal challenges. Ohio Republicans have changed their tone after voters rejected their attempt to impose hurdles on passing amendments. Instead of a majority to change it, Republicans want to require 60 votes to make a change, locking in antiabortion laws before. Ohio schools must emphasize abstinence but do not require lessons on consent, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Other states, including Ohio’s governor, want more paid parental leave, while conservatives want to ban abortion at conception. The GOP-controlled Legislature hasn’t passed any abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Ohio Republicans, empowered by the Kavanaugh Supreme Court, move aggressively toward forcing childbirth on women. The state’s GOP-controlled Legislature passed measures this week that could make it harder to amend the state constitution to protect women.
With little time left to pass legislation, Republican leadership in the Ohio Senate might not ban abortions from the moment of conception by the end of this year. Ohio Republicans want some of that power back by raising the threshold for a change in the state constitution from a simple majority to 60 of voters.
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Another severe issue: Abortion rights or lack of are affecting our military forces; GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville (Arkansas) is holding up Army/Marine Corps senior Officer promotions (which are hurting National Defense) because he is trying to stop military service members from traveling to states that have abortion rights and healthcare. Folks, the “GOP” is trying to destroy women’s right to choose and where they can go. I urge voters to vote blue in 2024. TY.
Since we are here, why not a counter proposal to show up these thugs for who they are? Amendment 1*: Any amendment that raises the bar for future amendments must first pass its own bar. You want to make it 60 percent? First get 60 percent. How about 70? Sure, get 70. I mean, its utterly ridiculous that they could raise the bar with 50 percent plus 1 vote.
Several years ago, something similar happened in my state, when a ballot initiative was in the process of moving the state towards ranked voting (automatic runoff that guarantees a candidate will always win by >50%). The GOP felt that the change would help independent candidates at the GOP’s expense (and a very unpopular governor had just maintained two terms by winning a “plurality” vote with less than 30% both times!!!), and so the GOP tried to pass a change that would force ballot initiatives to need a higher threshold number of votes, and several other barriers that would have made it functionally impossible to enact ballot initiatives. Luckily THAT did not pass, and ranked voting did.
545 vs 300,000,000 One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
22 “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” – Exodus 21: 22-25
I voted yes. the constitution should not be able to be changed on a whim of 50.1 percent for a thing. Look into what it takes to make an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And remember, if you think the republicans are doing this, remember, they cant make changes either without 60 percent. So, no need to get ornery about it.
Okay….hear me out. A Constitutional Amendment requires 2/3 of the House and Senate to pass. Which it should, its a dang amendment. All this does is require any grass root movement from getting to the point that the House and Senate are going to HAVE to vote on it until it gets a little bit closer to 2/3. I do not understand the problem here. All these talking heads are just flat out talking out of their you know whats.
I keep seeing comments about the rights of the woman. I rarely see comments about the rights of the child. What pro choice is saying is that only the woman has rights and the child doesn’t. If you would ask one hundred children if they were happy that their mothers didn’t murder them, I would bet that all one hundred would say yes.
A reminder .. Churches and other nonprofit organizations that are exempt from taxation are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office,” according to the IRS website .. Take away their tax exempt status !
hope the people of Ohio can stand strong and free and allow women their god given right to their own bodily autonomy the supreme court is out of touch with reality and show they are Catholic and don’t follow the The Constitution of The United States of America which clearly ignores the basic Constitutions idea/ideal of separation of church and states? Aren’t these “jurists” the worst that America has ever had? is their shame felt by our Nations citizens and are the justices that are falsely creating negative rulings to take away peoples freedoms in our Nation?
August 8, 2023, vote against Issue 1 (vote NO). If they are allowed to require 60% vote to ratify laws, rather than 51%, more rights will be taken away. It is already an uphill battle, due to heavy gerrymandering (ie; we have Jordan in district 4), don’t give away more of our rights, our voice. VOTE NO, 8/08/23.
We voted to preserve the right to abortion in Kansas but our republican led legislature and our republican attorney general have continued to ignore the wishes of the voters and have recently created laws going into effect in July that make getting the procedure more emotionally painful for both women AND their doctors.
My signature is on that petition. Government should not be sticking their noses in family planning, or a woman’s uterus. Ohio schools sure could use the $20 million that Republicans decided to spend to have the August 8th election. I do wonder how Ohioans keep voting Republicans into office in the first place, considering the damage they are doing.
Anyone know where there might be a protest near Mahoning County Ohio? I want my Grandgirls to know that their Memaw fought for them & their decisions later on in their lives. I pray that they are never faced w/ such a life changing decision but if they are I want it to be THEIR OWN DECISION! I will be voting 8-8-23 to protect our rights & I will absolutely be voting in November. These people have gone too far in trying to take our decisions away & we have to stand together! To me, being proud to be an American means being proud to stand w/ the people of our nation. I may not like or agree w/ certain people in office or things being done “for the good of all,” but I am proud to stand w/ our citizens… WE THE PEOPLE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TOGETHER‼️ Let’s do this Ohio! Much✌💕🙏💫🌚🧹
Just imagin the audacity and arrogance to want to change a law by argumenting your own interpretation of a religion, in a land where freedom of religion ought to be guaranteed. The sheer audacity and hypocracy… What is the difference with this and the “repent to Allah or die” ideology? Unbelievable!
Exodus 21:22-25 says, “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. This is the type of thinking that we’re dealing with today
People in OHIO, VOTE NO IN AUGUST SPECIAL ELECTION. Ohio voters will decide in an Aug. 8 special election whether to change the threshold for changing the state’s constitution. Issue 1 — the only issue on the ballot in this special election — would require any future proposed constitution amendments to pass with 60 percent supermajority, rather than the 50 percent plus one that is currently required. The measure is controversial and subject to legal challenges. Proponents, including most state Republican elected leaders, say it is necessary to prevent outside special interest influence in Ohio’s constitution. Opponents point out that the measure is clearly aimed at defeating a November election ballot measure to protect abortion rights in Ohio. Polls show that about 60 percent of Ohio voters support abortion rights.
Ohio is just going to re-elect the same people no matter how they feel about abortion rights. I think the same is true for all red states. The only real question is, “will there be a federal ban on abortions?” The math says the answer is yes. (EDIT: The blue states are just as bad with their bought biases, but they’re not the ones trying to ban abortion).
Whilst opposing the Dobbs decision and upholding the decriminalisation of abortion, the suggestion that abortion should be allowed “up to when a foetus is independently viable” is taking the issue too far. A foetus is never independently viable. Infants aren’t independently viable until well into grade school.