It was annoying to see headlines reporting that the "GOP controlled AZ legislature voted to overturn..." which was technically true, but obscured the fact that it was Democrats who did this over GOP objections and obstruction, and with the help of only 3 Republicans.
I read/heard some news pundit suggest that the Az Democrats wouldn't actually try to repeal this ban, because they want to campaign on it (just like national Rs killed the bipartisan strict immigration bill), but once again, the Ds show that they actually care about governing, not just campaigning.
The 3 Republicans in the house deserve no accolades......yeah, I get the 3 votes helped repeal it, but it was only to serve their orange blob master. They made a TEMPORARY concession hoping that in the long term a full national ban can go into place.
It's like speaker Mike johnson, he deserves absolutely no accolades or credit for getting the ukraine, taiwan, Israel funding to the house floor - he's the one that held up the fucking thing for 10 months. Under mounting pressure and a discharge petition he had no choice.
Like a lot of other commenters here, I'm cautious about feeling too triumphant over this. Meanwhile, I'm still writing my get-out-the-Dem-vote postcards into Arizona.
good in the short term, but if it gets through the az senate, repuglicans can run on “we fixed that bad abortion law for you, now you should vote for us in november.” to be clear, if it’s good for kari lake, it’s bad for az women. again, i’m talking long run.
I mean, it’s good news - but I fear the Republicans are trying to appear as if they care about women now... So that their actual, still-awful agenda will now seem reasonable when they try to impose it. Ugh. Time to push even harder for NO bans! And reiterate that we do not need politicians in our doctor’s offices. Pregnancy is too complicated to legislate. Grr
I would have thought you of all people would have highlighted only 3 Republicans joined all the Democrats on this…that’s less than 10% of their caucus. They are not the good guys here!
Hell yes!!! No, the war to regain our bodily autonomy is not won, but winning this battle ain’t nothing. A bright little light amidst so much bleak shit show. Yay!!!
It was annoying to see headlines reporting that the "GOP controlled AZ legislature voted to overturn..." which was technically true, but obscured the fact that it was Democrats who did this over GOP objections and obstruction, and with the help of only 3 Republicans.
I read/heard some news pundit suggest that the Az Democrats wouldn't actually try to repeal this ban, because they want to campaign on it (just like national Rs killed the bipartisan strict immigration bill), but once again, the Ds show that they actually care about governing, not just campaigning.
The 3 Republicans in the house deserve no accolades......yeah, I get the 3 votes helped repeal it, but it was only to serve their orange blob master. They made a TEMPORARY concession hoping that in the long term a full national ban can go into place.
It's like speaker Mike johnson, he deserves absolutely no accolades or credit for getting the ukraine, taiwan, Israel funding to the house floor - he's the one that held up the fucking thing for 10 months. Under mounting pressure and a discharge petition he had no choice.
Beautiful. Congratulations to everyone involved in this effort.
Like a lot of other commenters here, I'm cautious about feeling too triumphant over this. Meanwhile, I'm still writing my get-out-the-Dem-vote postcards into Arizona.
good in the short term, but if it gets through the az senate, repuglicans can run on “we fixed that bad abortion law for you, now you should vote for us in november.” to be clear, if it’s good for kari lake, it’s bad for az women. again, i’m talking long run.
I mean, it’s good news - but I fear the Republicans are trying to appear as if they care about women now... So that their actual, still-awful agenda will now seem reasonable when they try to impose it. Ugh. Time to push even harder for NO bans! And reiterate that we do not need politicians in our doctor’s offices. Pregnancy is too complicated to legislate. Grr
I would have thought you of all people would have highlighted only 3 Republicans joined all the Democrats on this…that’s less than 10% of their caucus. They are not the good guys here!
Hell yes!!! No, the war to regain our bodily autonomy is not won, but winning this battle ain’t nothing. A bright little light amidst so much bleak shit show. Yay!!!
Wow, wow, wow.