Congratulations to Arkansas!
On Friday, a group called Arkansans for Limited Government (we see what they did there) announced that it had obtained enough signatures to get abortion rights on the ballot this coming November. In fact, the group obtained more — they only needed to get 90,704, and they got well over 100,000 signatures.
They also did it in spite of a troll campaign meant to dissuade volunteers from collecting more signatures, with an email saying they’d already met their goal.
The amendment in question would “prevent the state from restricting access to abortion up to 18 weeks after fertilization or in the instance of rape or incest, fatal fetal anomaly, or when abortion is needed to protect the pregnant woman’s life or physical health.”
Is 18 weeks great? No, it is not. Especially in the state with the worst maternal health situation in the country. But it’s certainly better than the zero weeks at which it is currently legal to get an abortion in Arkansas if you are not literally dying.
Just 38 percent of Arkansans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, one of the lowest rates in the country — far lower than any of the states where these ballot measures have passed. As shocked as we were when Kansans voted to protect abortion rights, polls show 49 percent of them believe it should be legal.
Still, it seems unlikely that the anti-abortion Right would resort to troll tactics to keep the measure off the ballot if they were not at least a little worried. If the measure were to pass, it would be an incredible victory for those of us on the right side of history.
Arkansans for Limited Government announced their success just days after groups in Nebraska and Arizona announced that they, too, had collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Montana and Missouri have also collected enough.
Abortion rights groups in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New York, Maryland and South Dakota have already won final approval for their ballot measures, meaning that abortion rights could be on the ballot in 11 states in November, which will surely come as a disappointment to those who insisted for years that they simply wanted to give decisions about abortion legality “back to the states.” (Just not like this!)
PREVIOUSLY:
Grandpa.
Is.
Pissed.
Stay away from Joe when he's pissed:
'𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞!' 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐨𝐞
President Joe Biden made a surprise call to the MSNBC show Morning Joe to defend his position as the presumptive Democratic nominee and to slam the opponent he chided for telling lies and playing golf.
On Monday morning, Biden told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski he was not compelled by those calls because he felt they came from pundits repeatedly wrong about how elections play out.
"I am not going anywhere," Biden said. "I wouldn't be running if I didn't absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024."
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞.
“𝐑𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞," 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝. "𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧."
https://www.rawstory.com/joe-biden-on-msnbc/
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Ain't nuthin' wrong with that dude.
Kim Cavill
@sexposparenting
I'll never forget "good" Christians shouting, "You're a WHORE," in my face while I walked into Planned Parenthood in 2000, needing emergency contraception and STI testing after I was raped at a fraternity party.