Ohio’s Abortion Rights Win Has Broad Implications.
“Abortion rights advocates on Tuesday won a critical victory in Ohio, beating back a measure that would have made their push to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution more difficult.
CNN projected that voters in the state rejected a proposal known as Issue 1. Placed on the ballot during what’s ordinarily a sleepy August by Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature, at the urging of Secretary of State and GOP Senate hopeful Frank LaRose, the proposal would have raised the threshold to pass constitutional amendments from a simple majority to a 60% vote. It was widely seen as a proxy battle over the proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights that will be on Ohio’s ballots in November.
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Abortion rights in America headed into unchartered territory when ‘Roe V. Wade’ was overturned last year. Now GOP politicians are having to juggle what their extremely vocal base wants and what it takes to get elected which are 2 different things when it comes to the question of abortion. That is a conundrum because that has to to be resolved and continues to play out as was the case in Ohio. Voters don’t want excessive abortion restrictions by in large but that has yet to translate into a softer GOP stance on the issue.
