In Ohio - GOP fuckery failed. Issue 1: Ohio vote delivers win for abortion-rights supporters (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net

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There's going to be a November vote on abortion. The GOP wanted to jack up the ability to pass it to 60% of the vote.

In what is being celebrated as a victory for abortion rights advocates, Ohioans have decided to keep the minimum voter threshold of a bare majority for amending their constitution, rejecting an attempt to raise it to 60%.

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Issue 1 may sound tedious, but the rare summer election had potential implications for a later vote, scheduled in November, which could establish a state-wide right to abortion.

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[-] clrprsntdngr@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

This was going to be a big measure of whether my wife and I moved our family out of this state. As a father of girls I could not bear keeping them here if the draconian GOP had their way. Ohio voters did good today. Hopefully we continue this momentum.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Same, honestly. The abortion part of this is (rightly) getting a lot of attention, but this would've gutted the only genuinely democratic instrument available to Ohioans and basically permanently doomed this state.