After “stinging losses” in 2022's midterms, GOP [FN1] said they needed “to refine their message on abortion.” More losses this week & a veteran GOP consultant said this should “be a major wake-up call on the abortion issue for us.” [FN2] The GOP seeks power & trains followers 1/5

to shut their minds at mention of catch-phrases so that followers will not think for themselves. Women’s reproductive rights was a prime target. The GOP lied to make the issue simple. But Roe v Wade was a GOP product. [FN3] Then voters in Ohio amended the State’s 2/5

constitution to protect the right to “‘make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,’ including birth control, fertility treatments, miscarriage & abortion.” The State can regulate procedures after fetal viability, w/exceptions such as when a doctor determines the life or 3/5

health of the woman is at risk. [FN4] Ohio’s GOP wants to strip judges of jurisdiction over the new provision. Bottom line: The GOP lost in 2022 and 2023. If its leaders want to backtrack, no one should trust them. Once in office, GOP elected officials will do as they want. Bet on it. 4/5

Footnotes: FN1. “GOP” is substituted for “this iteration of the GOP.” FN2. Dixon, “Republicans say...” NBC News, 11/08/23. FN3. 410 U.S. 113, Blackmun, J w/whom Burger, Brennan, Stewart and Powell, joined. FN4. Smyth, “Ohio Voters Enshrine...” 11/7/23, AP. 5/5