Nov. 8, 2023, 2:03 AM UTC 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 pregn...
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CHICAGO (AP) — Abortion wasn’t technically on the ballot in Ohio’s special election. But the overwhelming defeat of a measure that would have made it tougher to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall was the latest indicator that...
Spring said he’s “pro-life” but also thinks “we have to have some legal abortion,” with a cutoff somewhere in the first or second trimester. The state’s six-week ban went too far, he said, but so does Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would prevent the state from restricting ...
People gather in the parking lot of the Hamilton County Board of Elections as people arrive for early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. They urge a vote for or against the measure known as Issue 1. Issue 1 is the only abortion question on any state ballot this ye...
If Issue 1 passes, it would raise the threshold for passing future changes to the Ohio Constitution from a simple majority to 60%, making it significantly harder for aNovember ballot issueenshrining abortion rights in the state to get enough votes. ...
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The 60% vote proposal, known as Issue 1, will be on the ballot for an Aug. 8 special election. If voters approve the supermajority marker, the reproductive rights ballot initiative would be subject to the new heightened threshold. In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe...
When the smoke clears in a fortnight, pray that Ohio’s electorate spent enough time studying their down ballot as well as voting in the big two races, and thus soundly defeated Issue 1. Hugh Hewitt is host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET on the ...
“they have said the quiet part out loud, that putting issue one on the ballot was 100 percent about trying to rig the election against the abortion amendment in the fall,” ohio democratic party chair elizabeth walters said over the weekend. but “while this is about abortion today, if ...