The office of Republican Attorney General Dave Yost — an abortion opponent — has released what it callsan “impartial” legal analysis of Issue 1. It indicates the amendment would make Ohio’s abortion law less restrictive “than at any time in Ohio’s history” — even less than under th...
For Issue 1 to pass,a majority vote is required.The amendment will go into effect 30 days following the election if Ohio voters approve it. Republicans in Ohio tried earlier this year to increase the bar for approving amendments to the state constitution, making the process more challenging. I...
In a memo last December to his Republican colleagues, state Rep. Brian Stewart, who first introduced the measure in the Ohio House, did not hide the role the abortion issue was playing in motivating his efforts. "After decades of Republicans' work to make Ohio a pro-life state, the Left...
Tuesday’s “Yes” vote on Ohio’s Issue 1adds another tick in the “W” column for abortion rights, as anti-abortion forces have now lost every single time the people have been directly asked whether the government should be able to force us to stay pregnant against our will. It’s a...
The ban is the latest in a trend toward more restrictive abortion policies, with the U.S. states of Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia and Mississippi recently creating similar bans. Experts say all this is part of a GOP concerted effort to push the issue up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where anti...
Theamendmentwas adopted by a margin of 56% to 44% with about 90% of the vote counted in Tuesday’s general election in Ohio, the only state with an abortion issue on the ballot this fall, according to the Associated Press. The amendment prevents the state from interfering with reproductive...
"They think this is a messaging issue, where this is actually a policy issue," he said. Reproductive rights advocates - bolstered by Ohio's November vote to protect abortion rights - are gathering signatures for similar ballot measures in 2024 in several states. The list includes presidential ...
Activists on both sides of the issue are canvassing to the last minute. AFP As the clock ticks down on a high-stakes vote in the US state of Ohio, activists are out in force urging voters to decide whether to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution....
The Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio says he doesn't think abortion is "an issue" for women who are "past 50," while suggesting that many suburban women are single-issue voters on abortion, according tovideo footage obtained by local station WCMH-TVfrom a town hall Friday. ...
“It has really helped illustrate what a ‘yes’ vote means,” Jordyn Close, the deputy director of the Ohio Women’s Alliance, one of the groups in the coalition backing Issue 1, said of the six-week ban. “We’re able to say Ohio has experienced this already. Ohio doesn’t want ...