Yup. Ohio's a Red State
Yikes! I've not read the Ohio Constitution since, what... maybe Sixth Grade? What a freakin' scary theocratic piece o' work! Of course, there is much reason and sound structure to be found in it. Red state folk are great people, when they're not letting (or pushing) their leaders to mind other people's private business.
Hooo... {shakin'....}(just a little...) It's just frightening what delusions and horrors people take for granted as having some basis in reality.
This is how I edited their little sample letter.
Hooo... {shakin'....}(just a little...) It's just frightening what delusions and horrors people take for granted as having some basis in reality.
Yesterday, State Rep. John White, Chair of the House Health Committee, announced that public hearings on the Ohio Abortion Ban (HB 228) will be held on June 13 at 10:00 am. This dangerous legislation would outlaw abortion without any exceptions -not even for survivors of rape or incest, to preserve a woman's health, or to save a woman's life.
We cannot allow right-wing extremists in the Ohio Legislature to endanger women's lives by outlawing abortion in our state. We need your help to
stop this bill in its tracks! You can help us by:
- Attending the Ohio Abortion Ban Hearing: We need pro-choice Ohioans to come to Columbus and tell their legislators why it is important to keep abortion safe and legal in our state. Come to House Room 313 on Tuesday, June 13 at 10:00 am. Bring your family and friends and bring them with you. Are you interested in testifying, but have never testified before and don't know what to do? No problem. We will teach you everything you need to know. Click here, and let us know if we can count on you to attend the Ohio Abortion Ban hearing.
- Writing to your legislators to make sure they get the message loud and clear!
This is how I edited their little sample letter.
At a time when schools are falling behind acceptable standards, and families are struggling to make ends meet, our state government should focus on legislation to improve the lives of women and families in Ohio. Instead, they are trying to control and manipulate people's lives in ways for which there is no medical, and at best an extremely misguided sociotal interest.
The Ohio Abortion Ban is not only bad policy, it is a horrifying usurpation of an individual's right to determine how to maintain the health and wellbeing of her own private person. This misogynist and thus misanthropic piece of legislation should not be passed into law, because such would constitute a threat to the general health and welfare of our society, by Re-relegating women to the 2nd class citizenship they "enjoyed" before the US Constitution acknowledged them as having equal status to men with the 19th Amendment.
Please find love for your species' ability to reason and be responsible for their own actions. Please respect the body of evidence and knowledge of the medical establisment and reject HB 228.
MB, you and I are dying a little each day and don't even know it.
ReplyDeleteGreat letter, really -- did you send it?
Do you think Blackwell's gonna win? Do you think Diebold's got it so rigged that that's going to happen?
At some point the crazies are going to take things over the cliff and we will be rid of them. Maybe the mid-terms will do it. Who knows?
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, BG, and I did indeed send the letter. Let's hope it helps.
ReplyDeleteStrickland (quick recent story) seems like a decent candidate, but Kenny B is a pseudo-religious autocrat who really does seem to have some kind of fetish for Diebold, the company, not just their tech. I don't know...
To Steve, well bro, it's certainly a greater possibility than the Rapture!
We will see.
Well put in that letter. Things really are crazy in this country these days.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kevin.
ReplyDeleteI just remembered why I couldn't recall the gist of the Ohio Const; it totally repulsed and repelled me from any lingering interest in politics whilst I was still in High School.
All that god talk in there just seemed utterly in contradiction to the spirit of the words in the US Constitution. It was like loving Jessie as a kid, then learning in my HS Catholic theology classes that the church didn't even believe so much of the BS they'd been swearing to us children was true.
I became agnostic on religion then. As a HS senior, I lost my "faith" in our political institutions as well. Some of that has been restored over the years (despite Reagan's trickle-down, Iran Contra and Union Bustin' [unions needed a break-check, by no means was/is a break-up a reasonable or even SANE idea!!!] or GHWB's duplicity vis-a-vie Iraq's inv of Kuwait) so that I can again follow the candidates without gettin' instantly disgusted. Good ol' Slick Willy helped in that regard. Uhh.. for the most part. {-;
My days of "Party Loyalty" are long gone now, though. Each guy/girl has gotta prove their policies are worthy based upon the data that's available. "Loyalty" is a sure way to have that data ignored, no matter what one's ideology.
I reseve it for people I know and my favorite teams in sport.
It's starting to look like us ladies need to tie those aprons back on, adorn our necks with pearls and stand waiting with slippers and pipe in hand.
ReplyDeleteOy vey, Tonya! lol
ReplyDeleteSounds like the inspiration for a new "old saying": Women should be had, and not heard.
The reason it's even under discussion is because it's what a lot of women, even well-educated folk, really want. They forget the incontrovertable fact that such a condition leaves people, quite literally, at the mercy of another's whims. That kinda thing necessarily works better for some than it does for others...
And it's utterly unfair to the men, boys and girls in our society. Personal Responsibility seems to be anathema to religious fundamentalists, which is why it's so incongruous that they've migrated to the Republican Party. It also shows the disingenous nature of that party's recent and current leaders.
Bizarrely silly humans . . {shakin'head}
But it does look like the Dems have a some hope for wooin' religious folk. Let's hope some unity on more rational grounds developes outta some of these new groups. More in a coming post.
At a time when schools are falling behind acceptable standards, and families are struggling to make ends meet, our state government should focus on legislation to improve the lives of women and families in Ohio. Instead, they are trying to control and manipulate people's lives in ways for which there is no medical, and at best an extremely misguided sociotal interest.
ReplyDeleteI found out just how "red" of a state Ohio is when grading essays for the standardized 8th grade achievement tests for the state of Ohio. (I work for a company that grades standardized tests for public school systems around the country.) I was disturbed to find a lack of knowledge of spelling, sentence structure and understanding of content and context of the question asked. I know that these are problems found in most every school district these days, but an even more disturbing thing about the Ohio essays were the answers that said simply "your science will not help you" and "I do not know and do not care" Evolution is wrong - God created us" or "Science is a lie." There were many such comments and not enough space here to write them all. I always thought that Ohio would be more open-minded and liberal but wow, was I wrong! These essays came from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus public school systems.