Abortion is KRYPTONITE For GOP

Andy Ostroy
2 min readNov 10, 2023

“Get the fuck out of our vaginas!” That’s the impassioned rallying cry which continues to be loudly heard across America, and it was shouted from the mountaintops once again in this week’s off-year elections in Ohio, VA and elsewhere.

The big victory was in Ohio, where voters chose to enshrine abortion rights in its state constitution, ending Republicans’ relentless and underhanded attempts to strip women of their reproductive rights.

In Virginia, voters rejected Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s promise to enact a 15-week abortion ban by not only voting to keep the Senate in Democrat control, but they also flipped the House. This gives Democrats full control of the state legislature and serves to abort (pun intended) Youngkin’s right-wing dream of controlling women’s bodies and family-planing decisions.

And in Kentucky, incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear in his campaign spent millions to draw a major distinction on abortion with his Republican opponent Daniel Cameron.

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decisions last year which overturned 30–50 years of settled law with Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, seven states have held abortion-related ballot issues, and abortion rights advocates have won all seven contests. Kansas, Kentucky and Montana defeated anti-abortion measures while California, Michigan and Vermont approved…

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Andy Ostroy

Director, producer, podcaster, writer, resistor, non-profit-supporter of women filmmakers