(11-08-2023, 12:36 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(11-08-2023, 11:50 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Been saying this for some time ^ It was a bad gamble by the right that will bite them in the backside with female vote loss. 

Yesterday Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all clearly demonstrated how American voters feel about the state controlling women's rights too govern their bodies.

With that being said, this was also the intent of the SCOTUS ruling. Rather than be a widely sweeping federal law, they ruled to make it a state issue, which Ohio has done. Now other states will be putting it on their ballots. 

While a hot button issue now, it won’t be for long after each state has codified their voter mandates.

Exactly.  I do not think a sub-60% majority of voters should be allowed to change a state Constitution.  I do not think having abortion law vary from state to state is a good idea, because it will not reduce abortion or increase health outcomes.  People who want abortions will cross state lines and people stuck in the restrictive states will have a harder time finding obstetricians.  

The SCOTUS ruling also allows the US Congress and the President to step in, to establish a nationwide floor for abortion access and a nationwide ceiling.  That's what should happen, ultimately.  The floor has to be exceptions for preventing bodily harm to the mother, for rape and incest and full access to birth control pills and IUDs.  The ceiling should be some number of weeks, probably 12 or 15.  Congress needs to do the hard work of taking some uncomfortable votes on this, then hopefully it won't be an issue anymore.

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