Republicans in Ohio want to undermine the will of voters who approved a measure enshrining reproductive freedom into the state’s constitution

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    “The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.”

    The strategy Republicans are now proposing would essentially strip Ohio’s courts of the authority to repeal existing abortion restrictions before the new amendment goes into effect on December 7.

    “No amendment can overturn the God-given rights with which we were born,” state Rep. Beth Lear (R-Galena) added in the Republican’s statement.

    Another representative, Jennifer Gross (R-West Chester), claimed the referendum had only passed due to “foreign election interference.”

    Rep. Bill Dean (R-Xenia) said the amendment “doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law,” and that its language is “dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”

    Gretchen Whitmer, told The Detroit News that “it shouldn’t be lost on people that these right-wing organizations and radical Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are cherry-picking courts to try to once again overturn a constitutionally guaranteed right because they can’t win with voters.”


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        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          Live here long enough and you learn to hate every area for its own terrible qualities. Xenia frankly could use even more tornadoes and west Chester sounds like it hasn’t gotten better since the 70s

    • @iheartneopets@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      I can’t wait until Jennifer Gross has to watch her husband fuck another woman to beget children. Disgusting pick-me traitor to her gender is going to keep fucking around until she finds out that no, these men don’t think she’s special and no, she hasn’t earned an equal place among them by giving away her own rights. There’s a special place in the hell she believes in waiting for her one day.