It was magnificent to watch the USA take back it's sanity. I congratulate every voter that put aside political ideology long enough to make rational decisions about life going forward.
Fantastic!
November 7, 2023Columbus - Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment (click here) on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year....
I never thought I would see the day when women's health would be returned to the standard of the woman's movement of the 1960s. Ohio did it. The best decision I have witnessed in regard to women's health for a long, long time.
I was watching Norah O'Donnell before the Ohio vote was tabulated and it was devastating to listen to the reporting whereby physicians didn't feel safe practicing in extremist states and left their practices due to oppressive laws that completely compromised women. The abortion rights law is far more than simply the right for a woman to have an abortion, it is about the safe uninterrupted medical practice of women's health doctors.
The doctors fleeing the extremist states were not even abortion doctors, there were obstetricians who gave women pre-natal care. These obstetricians were practicing with their hands tied should there be an emergency and a women's life was in danger. They were unable to make life and death decisions because oppressive abortion laws.
The extremist states have gone too far. Yesterday America spoke and said loud and clear every woman is important and her health should be guaranteed to her.
It is a lot to think about in some ways. A woman in a state where abortion is basically banned can become pregnant with a normal pregnancy and then something goes wrong. Physicians are in such a legal quagmire that even a normal pregnancy with a change of events became a deadly path for both mother and baby. The entire circumstances surrounding abortion rights is not only oppressive from the standpoint of quality of life for women, but, are life and death decisions for women as to get pregnant or not get pregnant realizing they could die if something went wrong.
The oppressive laws regarding women's health are simply wrong. It is completely wrong to have a mother die when she could have been saved by an abortion. What does the family left behind do when a mother and wife dies due to laws that mandated her death?
In the 1960's when "the pill" became a choice for women that wanted to have control over their reproductive decisions physicians and women had privacy about such decisions. Birth control and abortion were private issues between a woman or girl and their physician. Ohio bravely returned those privacy rights. It is nice to believe in Americans again in that they are actually taking back their rights rather than walk a path of wrong-headed political ideology.
The country had a great night. It is time to make abortion legal at the federal level and we need to continue to focus on it into the elections of next year. Virginia voters absolutely destroyed the extremist agenda of their Governor and I applaud all of them.
I am relieved today in a way I haven't felt about my country in a long time.
