The political dynamics of the abortion landscape were, for decades, calcified.
The well-organized and well-practiced anti-abortion lobby used the promise of abortion restrictions — and threat of broad access to the procedure — to drive like-minded voters to turn out. Republican politicians, increasingly exclusively, signed their names to both substantive and messaging bills alike, often able to fly the flag without dealing with the consequences while Roe was still the law of the land.
Rep. Rapey McForehead said in an interview that he told Trump that he has to do something to convince women who don’t like him as a person to vote for him anyway. Gaetz argued that one way to do that is to choose newly minted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders or South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his running mate.
The first article that grabbed my attention was written by Vasko Kohlmayer, VAERS Data Indicates the Covid Vaccines Have Killed At Least 140,000 People. Since then, at least 65 articles from professionals, including doctors, have been published on American Thinker, some of them with exhaustive research.
Southern Ohio has always been deep red but it used to be dominated by country club Republicans, and in my town several of them sat on the Planned Parenthood board with my liberal mom. They were her friends. The question is whether any of that remains or whether that generation’s well educated kids have all left the state.
I know this is a lot to ask, but I hope that the groups that trying to get voter initiatives on the ballot don’t forget to keep an eye on the data. The data of number of births, number of additions to SNAP, WIC, and other social benefit programs that help feed mothers to be, and then their newborns. Creating more humans means more demands on the state’s programs. How will the need for more money for this programs and the staff to run be collected and allocated?
Just like Matty to go for the click bait and then to opportunistically and uncritically retweet it without reading the body of the article.
ETA: And, just like his allies in the right wing propaganda-sphere to publish his ‘understandings’ without the least due diligence.
What Mr Kholmayer forgets to mention is more than a million people in the United States alone have died from covid and many thousands suffer from “long covid”. Also …nearly 263 million have gotten at least one dose of an anti vaccine The quoted deaths is 0.05% of the total who have been vaccinated. But that’s not to make light of the many deaths he mentions. However it does need to be put in perspective. How many would have died without any vaccine?
An exhausting article–half of it is stuff we already know and not about Ohio. The article highlights Republican control, but not the collapse of the Democratic party, which has been slow to rebound. This may be part of the slow pace of the initiative effort. The posting is a good example “Ohio is a Republican state” without knowing anything about, which seems to be a follow-up to the era of “Ohio is a bellweather state” without knowing anything about it.
“…we will return to 19,000+ babies being aborted each and every year”
Is there any rhetorical value for our side to start referencing gun deaths as “gun abortions”? It isn’t really more wrong than talking about aborting “babies.” (Taking a pill is not murdering a baby; having an IUD is not murdering a baby. A D&C before viability is not murdering a baby; killing hopes and dreams isn’t the same as killing a baby even if sloppy thinkers conflate the two.)
If we start talking about red state mass abortions it might do a better job of smacking the hypocrisy into the “pro-lifers” stunted consciences. In Virginia, young children are trying to abort their teachers and Youngkin says there’s nothing to be done. Let’s slap back every time someone says aborting a baby and make them explain how allowing gun murders is just fine. Lives only matter when it is politically useful.