What the Ohio special election results mean for abortion rights<\/p>\n
For months Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose denied<\/a> he had switched positions on August special elections because of abortion rights. But in June, video footage reported by News 5 Cleveland and the Ohio Capital Journal showed LaRose admitting abortion was motivating his stance. \u201cSome people say this is all about abortion. Well, you know what?\u201d he was recorded saying<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s 100 percent about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution \u2014 the left wants to jam it in there this coming November.\u201d (LaRose announced last month that he is running for US Senate.)<\/p>\n Read more at Vox<\/a><\/p>\n Ohio voters reject measure aimed at blocking abortion rights amendment<\/p>\n The amendment on Ohio\u2019s ballot in November<\/a> would establish an affirmative right to abortion and other reproductive health care, including pregnancy care, miscarriage care and contraception. It\u2019s modeled after a constitutional amendment Michigan voters<\/a> passed with 57 percent of the vote<\/a> in the 2022 midterms. While recent polls have shown<\/a> a majority of voters<\/a> support the Ohio abortion amendment, passing an amendment with 60 percent of the vote would be a much more difficult task for organizers than a simple majority.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n In a win for abortion-rights supporters, Ohio voters reject Issue 1<\/p>\n The defeat means a proposed amendment on the ballot in November will require just a simple majority to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What the Ohio special election results mean for abortion rights For months Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose denied he had switched positions on August special elections because of abortion rights. But in June, video footage reported by News 5 Cleveland and the Ohio Capital Journal showed LaRose admitting abortion was motivating his stance. \u201cSome … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,126,18],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-anti-ballot-initiative-measures","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}