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Democrats Will Win With Abortion on the Ballot | Opinion
newsweek ^ | 08/11/2023

Posted on 08/11/2023 4:30:29 AM PDT by devane617

On Tuesday, Ohio voters resoundingly rejected Issue One, an attempt by Republican legislators to change the rules of the state's ballot initiative process designed to sabotage an upcoming vote on an amendment to protect reproductive rights.

Republicans had clearly hoped that this rules change would fly under the radar in a low-turnout August vote. It didn't pan out that way. Activists on the ground in Ohio recognized the threat, mobilized to get national attention, and successfully got out the vote around the state. Our organization, , was one of several national networks to support them. Once again, the pro-choice, pro-democracy side won out.

It's becoming clear: a little more than a year after the overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision has created an electoral undertow that is pulling out to sea. One might dismiss a single referendum, special election, or midterm as a fluke. But the aggregate data of the last 14 months paints a clear picture.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; elections; prolife
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I believen the 2024 election pivots on abortion. I posted this vanity a few days ago: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4174060/posts
1 posted on 08/11/2023 4:30:29 AM PDT by devane617
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That’s how far America has fallen, that you can lose an election on killing children.


2 posted on 08/11/2023 4:35:01 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: devane617

You will never win by trying to force morality on people. That is why Republicans MUST try to keep the focus on State Rights vs. Federal Rights. They keep letting the left dictate the argument instead of focusing on the real issue - This is a Republic, NOT a Democracy. That is where the fight is.


3 posted on 08/11/2023 4:39:05 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: devane617

Abortion always needed to work it’s way through the system and was only not done decades ago because of Roe. We are losing in areas because of it, but once it’s settled everywhere they will pivot to climate. It’s all they have other than keeping us at each others throats over race, etc.
It will be a long challenge to beat this but we have to win ultimately. We are doomed otherwise. They truly are clueless to the world and our enemies will pick our bones.


4 posted on 08/11/2023 4:41:40 AM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: devane617

Young people are increasingly proving to be Pro-life. Hispanics are Pro-life as well.


5 posted on 08/11/2023 4:49:29 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: arkfreepdom

They will keep on with all of their fake causes, even abortion. It’s never enough with these people. They’re never happy and they hate humanity, especially the West. It goes on and on and it gets worse and worse. I’m not very hopeful of comity in our nation.


6 posted on 08/11/2023 4:50:36 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: devane617
"Once again, the pro-choice, pro-democracy side won out."

There's no way we are going to beat the left at their own game..

Until law and order is restored, the voting booth is lost and a waste of time.. :(

7 posted on 08/11/2023 4:50:46 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: All

America is no longer a majority White Christian nation , obviously they will vote for child murder.


8 posted on 08/11/2023 4:54:08 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: devane617

Where’s the organization and coordination on the right? Seems like the pro-death folks and the left in general always have their loyal foot soldiers at the ready for fights like this while we just sit around with our thumbs up our asses.


9 posted on 08/11/2023 4:55:01 AM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength. )
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To: devane617

Who needs abortion

When there are machines made in Communist China that handle all elections down to counting ballotts on petitions at state, county and city level ?

Same day in person paper ballotts hand counted or the country is lost.

Period.


10 posted on 08/11/2023 5:01:30 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: devane617

Yepp ... demonkkraps controlling the narrative and we are talking about it ... forget the crumbling of the country, the massive illegal invasion, the out of control feral givernment and its debt, corrupt feral givernment, unequal justice*** .... decay ... destruction ...crime in demonkkrap cities, ... INFLATION ... shortage of everyday goods .... forget all that ...

No 2024 is about abortion because the demonkkraps get to tell us what we will talk about in the public square ... and as we get closer to the election the fake race card, education and evil pharmaceutical companies will be added to their issues. Demonkkraps get to decide what the issues are and just like the fake moderator in presidential debates ... use the corporate media to keep the demonkkrap “issues” front and center and the only ones we talk about.


11 posted on 08/11/2023 5:03:21 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: devane617

i agree with you.
Most folks don’t live in the holy roller bubble and don’t see things the same way.
They are not worried about the afterlife, they worry about right now, life they are living.
It will be interesting for sure.


12 posted on 08/11/2023 5:04:20 AM PDT by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: devane617
In the last debate in 2016 between Trump and Hillary, Trump made Hillary and the Dims own the barbarity of abortion. And Trump won the election.

Evidently elections can be won with a pro-life message. We need to focus on eliminating the vote fraud. Our message is good.

IMHO we ought to graphically describe the steps of some abortion practices every day. We ought to make Dims own their push for "aborting" a baby even after birth. We ought to make the Dims own the gruesome procedure of partial birth abortion in which a baby is pulled out feet first, keeping the head in temporarily so he's not technically born yet, the "nurse" holds his arms and legs still, and the "doctor" worms a suction tube with a sharp point to puncture his skull and literally suck his brains out. At that point, the "nurse" no longer has to hold the "clump of cells" arms and legs. This still happens literally thousands of times per year -- way more than the white-on-black murders the Dims rioted in 2020 over.

If everybody everyday heard what goes on in abortion the pro-life message would win most of the U.S.

13 posted on 08/11/2023 5:05:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: devane617

Advice from NEWSWEAK? Serioudly? Its no longer a FEDERAL issue. Its now local. And the cabdidates should ckearly enunciate that.


14 posted on 08/11/2023 5:06:41 AM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATIST TRAITORS)
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To: escapefromboston
In the 1990s and 2000s, we were mostly winning culture wars type referendums on issues like homosexual "marriage". Erosion of Biblical values as evidenced by numerous measurements, like church attendance, and the Left continuing its long march through the institutions, which began in the late 19th Century, ended the "good and great American people". You may get people to support conservative positions on economic matters. There may also be pushback when the Left goes too far, like drag queen story hour. But paganism and amorality reign supreme in the "land of the free, home of the brave".

I hate sounding so negative, but I believe it is realistic.

15 posted on 08/11/2023 5:12:07 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: devane617

I could care less, let people who worship money and comfort whine. I am more concerned about the those denied birth as well as the metaphysical repercussions if society keeps allowing humans to murder their offspring at will. Our foundation is corroding partly due to abortion on demand yet many here think this country can be saved by embracing that evil practice.


16 posted on 08/11/2023 5:12:37 AM PDT by rollo tomasi
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We will lose because we have A Five Times loser - Complete Crooked Botox Damaged
Moron Ronna Romney.
Trump pick to destroy the Gop .
She has no ability to message or strategize.


17 posted on 08/11/2023 5:13:13 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: ZULU
Its no longer a FEDERAL issue. Its now local. And the cabdidates should ckearly enunciate that.

Don't worry. Linda Graham, who doesn't even give a rip about the subject, will come out again and declare that the GOP will outlaw it nationally - anything to sandbag the 2024 election and prevent him having a majority in the Senate where he might be tasked with actually doing something instead of showvoting.

18 posted on 08/11/2023 5:13:38 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: virgil

Don’t disagree and no they won’t quit. Ever. We just need to oral away the small part and control our red areas. They play the long game. We better learn how.


19 posted on 08/11/2023 5:23:51 AM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: devane617

I understand all the arguments against abortion, and they are good ones. But IMHO, we are well past the point where we can afford to dwell on this refinement of civilization. Let them snuff out their foul spawn. We can deal with it after we have saved Western Civilization.


20 posted on 08/11/2023 5:27:15 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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