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osodecanelaSo if I appear to be ranting, forgive me but apropos of my concerns voiced yesterday, the stunts pulled this week by the Republican controlled legislature in Ohio takes the cake. They tagged on a slew of new statutes limiting access to abortion and family planning to the state budget at the last minute, which the Gov. also a republican went ahead and signed into law.
Apparently because they're actually part of the budget, they cannot simply be reversed by the electorate by referendum, which happened last year with their state's attempt to get rid of collective bargaining. This was done at the last moment, and in a manner to obfuscate exactly what they were doing.
I'm angrier than I can remember being in a very long time.
We must work to make them irrelevant, before they drag us back to another time of oppression, when a woman's place was in the house, instead of in the House, the Senate, or the workplace.
Apparently because they're actually part of the budget, they cannot simply be reversed by the electorate by referendum, which happened last year with their state's attempt to get rid of collective bargaining. This was done at the last moment, and in a manner to obfuscate exactly what they were doing.
I'm angrier than I can remember being in a very long time.
We must work to make them irrelevant, before they drag us back to another time of oppression, when a woman's place was in the house, instead of in the House, the Senate, or the workplace.
