The overturning of Roe v. Wade was good news, but the job of protecting unborn children from reckless, irresponsible adults didn’t end there. There was still a lot of persuading to do in the individual states, in order to make sure that the laws were as pro-life as they could be. Unfortunately, pro-lifers were not able to win political contests in Ohio and Kentucky. Let’s take a look.

Daily Wire reports on Ohio:

Voters in Ohio voted Tuesday to approve a ballot initiative that places a right to an abortion into the state’s constitution.

Pro-life advocates say the measure will effectively make abortion legal at any point in pregnancy. The initiative brought in millions in spending with more than $18 million being spent in favor of the pro-abortion initiative, with just $7 million being spent in opposition since August 9, according to NBC News.

Pro-lifers were outspent 18 to 7! I guess it does help to have money when you want to be persuasive. It also helps to be good at making arguments. Maybe Ohio churches could teach Christians how to make an evidence-supported argument for the pro-life position? If they’re already doing it, then try even harder. Practice debates.

More:

Previously, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, has said that, if passed, Issue 1 would effectively legalize all abortion in the state.

“[T]he Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in Ohio’s history,” analysis from Yost said. “That new test includes definitions and other terms that likewise make it harder for any law covering ‘reproductive decisions’ to survive.”

Looks like it will be impossible to have any regulations at the state level in Ohio, now.

Here’s a Daily Wire story about Kentucky:

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, won a second term in the election on Tuesday in the red state.

With 87% of votes counted, data showed Beshear with 654,537 votes and 52.5% support, beating out Republican candidate Daniel Cameron, who had 592,884 votes and 47.5% support.

Beshear is a racist, not surprising:

Race shook up the contest with ads from a liberal Super PAC funded by billionaire George Soros suggesting that Cameron, who is black, is an “Uncle Tom.”

And a pro-abortion radical:

Beshear ran a staunchly pro-abortion campaign in a state where voters last year rejected a constitutional amendment to enshrine Kentucky’s near-total ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade while Cameron set his focus on issues related to crime and radical gender theory.

I thought this part was funny, given Trump’s criticism of DeSantis’ pro-life achievements lately:

Former President Donald Trump, who won Kentucky by double-digits in the 2020 election, endorsed Cameron, but polling indicated that Beshear was popular even among Trump voters.

Yeah, the pro-abortion radical is popular among Trump voters. They got their new instructions about abortion from Trump’s criticism of DeSantis and Florida’s pro-life laws.

Remember how Michigan did the same thing as Ohio, back in the 2022 mid-terms?

Daily Wire reported on it last November:

Democrats are projected to win key races and ballot measures across the board in the Great Lakes State, led by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s re-election victory. The party is also set to win multiple tight U.S. House races, enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution, and take control of the state legislature for the first time in 40 years.

[…]Michigan joined California and Vermont in passing ballot initiatives to add a right to abortion in their states’ constitutions. The approved measure now supersedes a 1931 Michigan law that bans all abortions unless the mother’s life is at risk.

And that paved the way for removing all restrictions on abortion in the state.

Daily Wire reported on last week’s news:

The Michigan legislature has advanced a legislative package eliminating various restrictions on abortions in the state.

On Wednesday, the Michigan House passed a package of abortion-related bills dubbed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). House Democrats declared in a press release that the package repealed legislation that was “medically unnecessary and harmful,” as well as unfairly targeting abortion providers.

It’s amazing to me that conservatives still continue to live and work in states like Michigan, Kentucky and Ohio. These are blue states now. Conservatives need to move out of those states, and give their tax money to people who agree with their values. In some ways, your whole education, career and finances is an effort to make sure that you don’t subsidize the secular left’s plan to control you. That’s why it’s so important for conservatives to do well in school, work and finances. It makes it easier for us to find work somewhere else, if the place where we are doesn’t like us very much.