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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCA, WA and OR issue joint pledge to defend abortion rights.
https://www.barrons.com/news/california-oregon-washington-pledge-to-defend-abortion-rights-01656087314Republic of Cascadia, anyone?
This is the death warrant of the Repuke party in these 3 states. It will be nothing more than a rural nuisance out there now.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)mopinko
(70,135 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)I love my blue state WA.
Lovie777
(12,281 posts)where I'm free and don't have to deal with CRT and woke. My choice for my body.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)I love the name, makes me home sick for the Great North West!
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)I live in WA, and it (as with the other two states) is mainly blue because of a couple of big cities. Most of the rest of the area ranges from deep-red rural to purple suburbs. In those areas, abortion hasnt been a campaign issue, since it was settled law
until today. Now, look for it to become an issue in every campaign outside Seattle and Tacoma (and, in those other states, in Portland, Eugene, SF, and LA). Watch for Democratic candidates elsewhere to be labeled as baby killers, and for a new mobilization among conservative churches to turn out their members to protect innocent life. In an otherwise low-turnout midterm election like this coming November, that may well be enough to flip a state senate or legislature and, then, all anti-choice forces will need is to win one gubernatorial election, and abortion is just as illegal as in Texas.
And, if you think that cant happen here, remember that it wasnt that long ago that voters in liberal California passed Proposition 8.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Way too much overreach by the gang of six.