Misinformation targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio's fall ballot is appearing in an unusual place: the official website of the Republican-controlled state Senate.

The inflammatory language targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio’s fall ballot is the type of messaging that is common in the closing weeks of a highly contested initiative campaign — warning of “abortion on demand” or “dismemberment of fully conscious children” if voters approve it.

Only the messaging isn’t just coming from the anti-abortion groups that oppose the constitutional amendment. It’s being promoted on the official government website of the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate.

And because the source is a government website, the messaging is being prioritized in online searches for information about Issue 1, the question going before Ohio voters Nov. 7 to enshrine abortion access in the state Constitution.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      2010 hit the ODP extremely hard. They weren’t amazing prior to then, but it’s been a disaster after 2010.

      Since that loss, the Ohio Democratic Party is famously bad at everything. You’re thinking, probably, that I mean they’re bad at their jobs. No. They’re bad at everything. Their cookouts even suck.

      My family is deeply embedded in the ODP. It’s failure all the way down. Not even corrupt (on the political spectrum) just… a bizarre combination of “kid who didn’t do the reading ad libbing in class” and “totally convinced of their own ability to win without effort”- only they lose fucking constantly

      Edit: I will literally never donate to the Ohio Democratic Party until they have a huge shakeup in leadership, and this opinion gets me in hot water with my family constantly. I’ve had some tense holidays, with people whose politics I 99% share -that’s how much I mean it.