National Democratic operatives are looking to the decisive defeat of Ohio's Issue 1 this week as a green light for abortion-focused message going into the 2024 campaign.

Why it matters: The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade resulted in a burst of grassroots energy that many Democrats credit for their better-than-expected midterm showing.

Driving the news: On Tuesday, voters in the increasingly Republican-leaning state voted by a decisive margin against raising the threshold for amending the state's Constitution.

• The measure would have made it more difficult for a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights to pass.

What we're hearing: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is circulating a memo, first obtained by Axios, noting that the measure was rejected by large majorities in "competitive House districts across the state[.]"

• The memo argues that the end of Roe is "still a major motivating factor even after the [2022] midterms," pointing also to Democratic over-performances in special elections this year.
• "It is crucial that Democrats remind voters early and often that ... MAGA Republicans are focusing their power on advocating for dangerous and unpopular abortion bans," it says.

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesperson Tommy Garcia echoed the memo in a statement to Axios.

• “Ohio's special election is the latest confirmation that the GOP's toxic agenda on abortion will lead their Senate campaigns to defeat,” he said.

 

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Good!get after those lawmakers that are stripping freedoms and supporting the top 1% 

The Republicans are in deep trouble over this issue. Before Dobbs, it was ardent right-to-lifers who were motivated to turn out in elections. Now it's going to be supporters of abortion rights as well. And they are far more likely to vote Democratic. Since the Dobbs decision, Democrats have over performed in special elections and did far better in the general elections than was predicted.

The GOP aren't going to have any feet left if they keep shooting them.

Republicans, conservatives point fingers within “yes” coalition after State Issue 1 goes down in flames

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Victory has many fathers while failure is an orphan, the saying goes. But there’s been no shortage of scapegoats floated by Ohio Republicans and conservatives this week as they look to explain why voters overwhelmingly rejected State Issue 1 earlier this week.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/republicans-conservatives-point-fingers-within-yes-coalition-after-state-issue-1-goes-down-in-flames.html

22 hours ago, Tug said:

Good!get after those lawmakers that are stripping freedoms and supporting the top 1% 

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

25 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

Removing cells from the uterus is not killing children it is removing cells 

23 hours ago, Social Media said:

The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade 

Meanwhile in Texas the Supreme courts decision is now leading to tensions that are at odds with their own extreme abortion laws that they put in place following Roe v Wade.

 

It seems the lawmakers there have just not thought this through at all................

 

DALLAS -- The state of Texas is questioning the legal rights of an “unborn child” in arguing against a lawsuit brought by a prison guard who says she had a stillborn baby because prison officials refused to let her leave work for more than two hours after she began feeling intense pains similar to contractions.

The argument from the Texas attorney general's office appears to be in tension with positions it has previously taken in defending abortion restrictions, contending all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court that “unborn children” should be recognized as people with legal rights.

It also contrasts with statements by Texas' Republican leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who has touted the state's abortion ban as protecting “every unborn child with a heartbeat.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-questions-rights-fetus-after-prison-guard-stillborn-102207307

 

 

31 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

But it's fine to ignore them when they've travelled half way around the world to try and find you after you abandoned them, isn't it?

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

That's an old and tired argument that doesn't work with the majority of Americans.  And it's the majority of Americans who decide elections.  I think many Americans believe in this adage more..."Republicans love fetuses, but they hate children."  Which is to say most anti-abortionists want nothing to do with kids once they're born, especially if they're from a poor family.

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

Nobody is claiming it is.

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The right to kill your children is not freedom.

I just hope Republicans running for office loudly offer that claim.