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Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Florida's abortion-rights ballot initiative fell short of passing on Tuesday, leaving in place a six-week abortion ban that has helped restrict access across almost all of the Southern U.S.

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Last I saw, it was at 57%.


So, a majority were in favor, but not a large enough majority to change the ban.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-06 11:22 AM | Reply

So in Florida the people don't rulw, the Nazi Christians do? How many women will die? How many rapist's babies will be born? Are the crazy anti-abortion activists prepared to support those unfortunate mothers and their babies?

#2 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-06 12:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party[a] before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by outsiders, providing the group with its colloquial name.[2]

Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged "Romanist" conspiracy to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States was being hatched by Catholics. Therefore, they sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in defense of their traditional religious and political values. The Know Nothing movement is remembered for this theme because Protestants feared that Catholic priests and bishops would control a large bloc of voters. In most places, the ideology and influence of the Know Nothing movement lasted only one or two years before it disintegrated due to weak and inexperienced local leaders, a lack of publicly proclaimed national leaders, and a deep split over the issue of slavery. In parts of the South, the party did not emphasize anti-Catholicism as frequently as it emphasized it in the North and it stressed a neutral position on slavery,[3] but it became the main alternative to the dominant Democratic Party.[2]

The Know Nothings supplemented their xenophobic views with populist appeals. At the state level, the party was, in some cases, progressive in its stances on "issues of labor rights and the need for more government spending"[4] and furnished "support for an expansion of the rights of women, the regulation of industry, and support of measures which were designed to improve the status of working people."[5] It was a forerunner of the temperance movement in the United States.[2]

#3 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-06 01:19 PM | Reply

Sound familiar?

#4 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-06 01:42 PM | Reply

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