The escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas. The biggest counties in Ohio voted last week overwhelmingly against the ballot initiative pushed by Republicans and anti-abortion forces to raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the […] Read more »
Democrats aren’t the only ones voting for abortion rights, Ohio shows
The fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision continued last week in Ohio where voters defeated a plan that would have made it more difficult to change the state constitution, with an amendment aimed at securing abortion rights on the ballot this fall. For years abortion has been thought […] Read more »
Ohio’s Issue 1 Smackdown
Key Points• The pro-abortion rights/Democratic side won yet another fight related to abortion rights on Tuesday night, this time in red-trending Ohio.• Turnout was robust and likely advantaged the Democratic side. Voter participation was relatively poor across Appalachia, a once-competitive area that has become extremely Republican in recent years.• Issue […] Read more »
How Ohio’s ballot vote could preview the 2024 politics of abortion
The ballot initiative Ohio voters will decide Tuesday is likely to demonstrate again the continuing public resistance to last year’s Supreme Court decision ending the nationwide constitutional right to abortion – while also offering an early indication about how broadly that backlash may benefit Democrats in the 2024 election. … […] Read more »
58% of likely Ohio voters back proposal to enshrine abortion access in constitution
Ohioans largely support a measure to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution, but it likely wouldn’t clear a proposed 60% threshold for constitutional amendments that voters will decide in August, according to a new USA TODAY Network/Suffolk University poll. About 57.6% of likely Ohio voters support the abortion rights […] Read more »
One year after Dobbs
It’s been about a year since the Supreme Court ruled on the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion. In the aftermath, the gulf between states with access to abortion and without has widened, as many states moved to either restrict or fortify the right […] Read more »