A Great Evening for Women's Rights

My entertainment tonight was watching forced birth go down in defeat in Ohio, 56% to 44%. Abortion rights are now a Constitutional right in Ohio. Forced birth tried to trick voters twice, once with a procedural vote to stop this vote and again by rewording tonight's ballot to confuse voters. Neither worked. Crime doesn't pay.

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