Abortion rights supporters far outraise opponents and rake in out-of-state money in Ohio election
1 year, 1 month ago

Abortion rights supporters far outraise opponents and rake in out-of-state money in Ohio election

Associated Press  

Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution far outraised their anti-abortion opponents in the months leading up to the November election, bringing in nearly $29 million from donors since Sept. 8, the campaign’s latest filings show. The massive flow of out-of-state cash to the campaign supporting the amendment reflects the enthusiasm with which major donors nationwide have spent to protect abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, said Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor emeritus in public affairs and philanthropic studies at Indiana University. In Ohio, an August special election that would have swayed November’s election went in the direction of abortion rights supporters, which likely made anti-abortion donors less willing to keep giving. The fundraising edge abortion rights supporters have in Ohio is reflected in ad buys: Abortion rights groups are on track to outspend anti-abortion groups by about $7 million through Election Day on Nov. 7, according to AdImpact, which tracks spending on campaign ads.

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Expensive Campaigns Loom as Abortion Rights Battle Intensifies
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Expensive Campaigns Loom as Abortion Rights Battle Intensifies

Associated Press  

Abortion rights are a major issue in North Carolina's upcoming Supreme Court election, with both major parties focusing heavily on the issue in their campaigns. Democratic candidate Allison Riggs has been highlighting her support for reproductive rights, while Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin has expressed concerns about the issue and the potential impact on the state's judicial system. The race is …

Abortion-Rights Groups Outspend Opponents by More Than 6 to 1 in Ballot Measure Campaigns
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Abortion-Rights Groups Outspend Opponents by More Than 6 to 1 in Ballot Measure Campaigns

Associated Press  

Abortion-rights groups have raised more than $160 million in ballot measure campaigns, while their opponents have raised nearly $10 million. Florida is the state with the most significant amount of funding, with proponents raising more than $75 million and opponents $10 million. South Dakota stands out as an outlier, with a significant funding advantage for anti-abortion groups.

Ohio’s 50+ women emboldened by MAGA candidate's comments on abortion
2 months, 1 week ago

Ohio’s 50+ women emboldened by MAGA candidate's comments on abortion

Raw Story  

Ohio women 50 and older are headed to the polls having lived through the days before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, during the time when abortion was legal, and now, after the decision was overturned in 2022 and power given to each state to decide. “Women don’t make their health care choices and decisions lightly and they’re …

Ohio’s 2023 abortion fight cost campaigns $70 million
1 year ago

Ohio’s 2023 abortion fight cost campaigns $70 million

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — This fall’s fight over abortion rights in Ohio cost a combined $70 million, campaign finance reports filed Friday show. The campaign in support of the abortion rights amendment also received an additional $500,000 from the New York-based Open Society Policy Center, a lobbying group associated with the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and a second $1 million donation …

Judge weighing Ohio abortion rights amendment’s legal impact keeps anti-abortion groups clear
1 year ago

Judge weighing Ohio abortion rights amendment’s legal impact keeps anti-abortion groups clear

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio has denied a group of anti-abortion advocates the ability to weigh in on long-running litigation over abortion clinic transfer agreements, as he assesses the impacts on the case of an abortion-rights amendment approved by voters this fall. In a brief order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Michael R. Barrett said he rejected …

Opponents gave input on ballot language for abortion-rights measure, Ohio elections chief says
1 year ago

Opponents gave input on ballot language for abortion-rights measure, Ohio elections chief says

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by voters earlier this month, cleveland.com reported Wednesday. The constitutional amendment’s backers blasted the ballot summary offered by LaRose, in his role as chair of the Ohio Ballot …

Emboldened by success in other red states, effort launched to protect abortion rights in Nebraska
1 year, 1 month ago

Emboldened by success in other red states, effort launched to protect abortion rights in Nebraska

Associated Press  

— An effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Nebraska Constitution is being launched, following on the heels of successful efforts in other red states where Republicans had enacted or sought abortion restrictions. That’s proving consistent in other states where voters have backed abortion rights — including in Ohio, where voters last week resoundingly approved an amendment to the state …

Republican faction seeks to keep courts from interpreting Ohio’s new abortion rights amendment
1 year, 1 month ago

Republican faction seeks to keep courts from interpreting Ohio’s new abortion rights amendment

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state’s constitution this week. Republican state Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear said in a news release Thursday that they’ll push to have the Legislature, …

Biden boosted by Ohio abortion vote and Kentucky win
1 year, 1 month ago

Biden boosted by Ohio abortion vote and Kentucky win

Raw Story  

The US state of Ohio voted Tuesday to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, while the Democratic governor of Kentucky won reelection, in results that boosted President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 White House race. The "yes" vote victory in Ohio's referendum, known as Issue 1, inserts the right in the Republican-run state's constitution for residents to "make and …

Voters in Ohio backed a measure protecting abortion rights. Here’s how Republicans helped
1 year, 1 month ago

Voters in Ohio backed a measure protecting abortion rights. Here’s how Republicans helped

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A proposal to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s Constitution was approved in a statewide election Tuesday, with a significant number of Republicans joining with Democrats to ensure the measure’s passage. It would also allow for abortions to be banned once it has been established that the fetus can survive outside of the womb, unless a physician determines that …

Ohio enshrines abortion rights, bolstering an undeniable trend in American politics.
1 year, 1 month ago

Ohio enshrines abortion rights, bolstering an undeniable trend in American politics.

Slate  

Ohio voters enshrined abortion protections in their state constitution on Tuesday, on an off-year Election Day that once again showed the staying power of reproductive rights as a galvanizing issue for Americans. The proposal, which needed a majority to pass, establishes “an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment,” as well as protections for people who help someone get …

Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights
1 year, 1 month ago

Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Heather Williams, interim president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to state legislatures, said …

Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights
1 year, 1 month ago

Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights

LA Times  

Lauren Miracle holds her son Dawson, 1, as she helps her daughter Oaklynn, 3, fill out a child’s practice ballot before voting herself Tuesday in Oregonia, Ohio. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned …

Voters in US state of Ohio to weigh in on abortion rights
1 year, 1 month ago

Voters in US state of Ohio to weigh in on abortion rights

Al Jazeera  

Residents of Ohio are voting in statewide elections where a measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution is on the ballot. In the Republican stronghold of Kansas in August 2022, voters rejected a bid to remove abortion rights from the state constitution by a margin of 59 percent to 41 percent. Seeing those victories, alongside polling that …

Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024
1 year, 2 months ago

Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state’s November ballot but also over their longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure. Other efforts focused on advancing legal arguments about the amendment’s specific phrasing, including the meaning of “reproductive health …

An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents’ messaging is on parental rights
1 year, 3 months ago

An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents’ messaging is on parental rights

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The wording of a proposed constitutional amendment on Ohio’s fall ballot to ensure abortion rights seems straightforward: It would enshrine the right “to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions.” Yet as the campaigning for and against the nation’s latest tug-of-war over abortion begins in earnest this weekend, voters are getting a different message from the …

Ohio vote shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box, giving Democrats a path in 2024
1 year, 4 months ago

Ohio vote shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box, giving Democrats a path in 2024

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Abortion wasn’t technically on the ballot in Ohio’s special election. After abortion rights supporters said they hoped to ask voters in November to enshrine the right in the state constitution, Ohio Republicans put Issue 1 on Tuesday’s ballot. “That leads to longer wait times, more travel, higher costs for patients.” Thakkilapati called the energy around abortion rights in …

Ohio’s Issue 1 would have made protecting abortion rights harder. Data shows why it failed
1 year, 4 months ago

Ohio’s Issue 1 would have made protecting abortion rights harder. Data shows why it failed

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Ohio voters rejected a proposal that would have made it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution, including one measure set for the November ballot that would guarantee abortion rights in the state. The nearly 750,000 advance votes cast by mail or in-person before Election Day broke heavily for No, roughly 70% to 30%, unsurprising considering …

In Ohio, a fight over democracy — and abortion
1 year, 4 months ago

In Ohio, a fight over democracy — and abortion

LA Times  

Abortion-rights opponents hold a “rosary rally” Sunday in Norwood, Ohio, ahead of a statewide vote on a measure to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution — a measure with consequences for abortion rights. “The left wants to jam it in there this coming November.” Far-reaching consequences Republicans currently in or pursuing office largely supported the measure, including former …

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
1 year, 4 months ago

Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year. Ohioans spoke loud and clear, and tonight democracy won.” A major national group …

An Ohio election that revolves around abortion rights is fueled by national groups and money
1 year, 4 months ago

An Ohio election that revolves around abortion rights is fueled by national groups and money

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Supporters of a ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution and could determine the fate of abortion rights there say a yes vote will provide a “defense against out-of-state meddling.” Opponents argue that a yes vote would give “special interests the winning advantage.” But an analysis of campaign finance data …

Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative. Backers said it wasn't about that
1 year, 5 months ago

Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative. Backers said it wasn't about that

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Protect Women Ohio, the campaign against the fall abortion issue, is airing pro-Issue 1 …

Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative. Backers said it wasn’t about that
1 year, 5 months ago

Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative. Backers said it wasn’t about that

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering. Protect Women Ohio, the campaign against the fall abortion issue, is airing pro-Issue 1 ads suggesting that abortions rights proponents at work in the state “encourage …

Editorial: Ohio lawmakers want to subvert democracy to stop voters from protecting abortion access. Shame on them
1 year, 5 months ago

Editorial: Ohio lawmakers want to subvert democracy to stop voters from protecting abortion access. Shame on them

LA Times  

Boxes of signatures are delivered to the office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on July 5. Last year, about half a dozen states across the political spectrum — blue, purple and red — voted either to secure reproductive rights through state constitutional amendments or to reject ballot measures that would have specified that state constitutions don’t protect abortion …

Ohio Constitution question aimed at thwarting abortion rights push heads to August ballot
1 year, 7 months ago

Ohio Constitution question aimed at thwarting abortion rights push heads to August ballot

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters will get the chance to decide whether to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments just ahead of possible November vote on an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state. A resolution asking voters in an August election to raise the threshold for future amendments from a simple majority to 60% cleared the …

Abortion rights groups submit 2023 ballot measure in Ohio
1 year, 10 months ago

Abortion rights groups submit 2023 ballot measure in Ohio

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two groups advocating for abortion rights submitted fall ballot language Tuesday for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Ohioans’ access to abortion, an effort that opponents have vowed to fight. The measure delivered to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office calls for establishing “a fundamental right to reproductive freedom” with “reasonable limits.” In language similar to a constitutional amendment …

Here are the places where abortion is on the ballot (in one way or another) this week
2 years, 1 month ago

Here are the places where abortion is on the ballot (in one way or another) this week

NPR  

Here are the places where abortion is on the ballot this week Enlarge this image toggle caption Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Abortion ranks among voters' top issues for the 2022 midterms. Ballot measures Supporters of abortion rights saw a major and largely unforeseen victory in Kansas in August when voters in the red state …

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