“How dare you not fall for misinformation!”

Several Ohio Republican lawmakers are proposing to strip courts of the authority to review cases related to implementing the newly passed Issue 1 abortion amendment.

In a statement released Thursday, four GOP lawmakers claimed without evidence that there was “foreign election interference” in the vote to pass Issue 1, and threatened to block the ability of courts to interpret the new constitutional amendment.

“To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative,” the lawmakers said. “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.”

Issue 1 passed Tuesday with 57 percent of the vote. It creates a constitutional right to reproductive freedom in the state, which protects decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing a pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion up to the point of fetal viability.

It allows the state to prohibit abortion after fetal viability, which is generally between 22 and 24 weeks into pregnancy, except when necessary to protect the life or health of the mother.

But Republicans in the General Assembly have vowed to fight the measure.

“Issue 1 doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn’t even mention one,” state Rep. Bill Dean said in Thursday’s statement. “The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”

Ohio’s six-week abortion ban that was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine ® in 2019 contains no exceptions for rape or incest. It is currently tied up in court but could have taken effect if Issue 1 failed.

In a separate statement, Senate President Matt Huffman ® said the measure’s passage was “just the beginning of a revolving door of ballot campaigns to repeal or replace Issue 1.”

Issue 1 will take effect in December, but it won’t be implemented until courts apply the new constitutional standard to abortion-related lawsuits, most notably the one challenging the current ban.

The Republican-majority Ohio Supreme Court is the ultimate authority in reviewing laws to determine if they align with the state constitution.

“It is very important that we see the new constitution be upheld,” said Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights. “So all of us who have been continuing to fight litigation … will continue to work together to ensure that the restrictions and bans that are currently in place are no longer in place.”

On the other side, Ohio House Democrats announced Thursday a law to repeal various existing laws that directly or indirectly restrict abortion care in Ohio. But Republicans hold strong majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly, so passage is an uphill fight.

What if I presented my poem as a football field prayer?

This has been a thing in Japan even before the population crisis. This has been a thing in other Asian countries besides Japan! What’s next? “Japan’s economy is so bad, they’re using paper for their doors!” Japan’s population and economic problems are apparent. Why does CNN feel it needs to mislead in order to punctuate it?

I mean the SCOTUS basically signaled last year that they don’t give a fuck either, or at the very least are willing to twist any interpretation of it to fit whatever the Republican’s agenda is. Hell, Clarence basically said after the Roe repeal that gay marriage and reinstatement of sodomy laws was next.

The point of this push is to get a case in front of the supreme that more or less outlaws any expression of queerness.

Oh hey lemmygrad user, funny you should mention that…

Waiting for lemmygrad to try to convince us how this is a good thing.

Right. It sound like you are just fine with it as long as its not monopolized. Or at least committed by the right powers.

Oh you mean like the 19th century, when there were several European powers carving up Africa, Asia, and the Pacific?

look up what “kanchou” is.

Doki doki desu ne!

Demo, pika pika, kawai rawr yo! kira kira uwu’tebayo!ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

Considering how many weebs are here, either everybody or nobody.

It’s a great time actually. Done it for years in Japan. Its not hard not to stare at other people’s junk…right?

And I thought they had weird pranks here in Japan.

Not yet, and I’m already prepared to use piped if I can’t use youtube itself, and hopefully people will start reuploading content to peertube (wink) if yt just becomes inaccessible.

This has got to be impressive to someone, and I’m happy for them.

As someone who grew up conservative in a conservative part of the country, conservative pop culture was always there, it was just always part of regular pop culture.

Country music has always been the genre of choice for conservative messaging, there have always been conservative leaning comedies that have poked fun at liberals and “politcally correct” culture (what we now call woke.) Hell even within “liberal” media, conservatives would often be given a neutral spotlight among liberals. There was a whole episode of Family Guy dedicated to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly has been featured everywhere from Marvel movies to television cameos, and South Park even still gives conservative viewpoints a positive or neutral light. Not to mention there was a boom of Christian movies during the 2010s, conservative writers have always been prominent on the NYT best sellers in books, and certain sports and event like Nascar, Football, and MMA have plenty of outspoken conservatives that are massively popular and still have strong careers and followings.

To believe that conservative media is now starting to breach its way into the mainstream is to believe the propaganda that many conservatives push in that American pop culture is inherently liberal or leftist.

I mean, Putin killing Prigozhom basically signaled none of them are safe. At this point if you are going to die falling out of the sky or die raiding Moscow, the latter might have a higher chance of survival.

Goes through hard drive with kid

“Everything the light touches, is our kingdom!”

うまいそう！たこ焼きが大好きだけど、いつも食べるたびに口とのどもやけどしまう！