I used to say the Republican Party at the federal level is not legitimate, now...

[ck4829]

I'm starting to move that belief to the state level as well.

For example: I will not under any circumstances contact a legislator if that legislator is Republican, doing so would say that they represent me, they do not.

Why you ask? How about this...

A new bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. But opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control.

One fifth of the representatives in the House have signed on to a bill sponsored by Republican John Becker that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services.

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And Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb. “Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains. (That's not a thing, there's no medical procedure where this happens. That's not how medical procedures work)

Becker (also) insists his bill does not target birth control. “When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise (How telling) but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it’s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive," Becker says. (So just change the formula from X to Y and it will have a different desired effect? That's not how biochemistry works, that's not how chemistry works period)

https://www.statenews.org/post/ohio-legislature-considering-abortion-bill-more-restrictive-heartbeat-bill

This man is where he is today because we continue to view the increasingly dangerous Republican Party as a legitimate political party, that was an error on our part, it's time to fix it.

[secondwind]

1. Every day, every hour, another shitshow.