Will Abortion Dominate the 2024 Elections? Tuesday Will Offer Clues.

Lisa Lerer and Shane Goldmacher
(New York Times)
Sat, November 4, 2023

Abortion has emerged as a defining fault line of this year’s elections, with consequential contests in several states Tuesday offering fresh tests of the issue’s political potency nearly 18 months after the Supreme Court ended a federal right to an abortion.

The decision overturning Roe v. Wade scrambled American politics in 2022, transforming a long-standing social conflict into an electoral battering ram that helped drive Democrats to critical victories in the midterm races. Now, as abortion restrictions and bans in red states have become reality, the issue is again on the ballot, both explicitly and implicitly, in races across the country.

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Abortion rights are on a winning streak at the ballot box. Ohio could test that.

Abortion rights have won on the ballot in red states before, but here's how Ohio's Issue 1 measure is different.

Grace Panetta
October 10, 2023

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a cloudy recent Friday morning, thousands of protestors descended on the Ohio statehouse for the March for Life, many holding signs with sayings like, “Ohio is Pro-Life” and “Vote No on Issue 1.” That measure, Issue 1, would guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion and other reproductive health care.

All eyes were on Ohio, said Jeanne Mancini, president of the national anti-abortion March for Life. They were at a “cultural crossroads, she said, and Ohioians would be judged on their vote on November 7.

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Bellwether? Ohio voters back abortion rights amendment in a test case for other states

The Ohio vote on abortion this November could presage next year's battle across the U.S.

Susan Page
July 24, 2023

Sweeping support for a proposed Ohio constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights spotlights the potential power of the issue to drive voter turnout and affect races up and down the ballot, even in Republican-leaning states.

A new USA TODAY Network/Suffolk University survey of Ohio showed the amendment guaranteeing access to reproductive services backed by a double-digit margin, 58%-32%. Significant support crossed partisan lines, including a third of Republicans and a stunning 85% of independent women, a key group of persuadable voters.

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After Roe, abortion activists are targeting state constitutions. Next up? Ohio.

The proposed measure would add language to the Ohio Constitution explicitly guaranteeing the right of every individual 'to make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions.'

Ingrid Jacques, USA TODAY
July 17, 2023

Get ready for the next iteration of the abortion fight: state constitutions. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, states have control over how much – or little – they want to regulate the procedure.

And those battles have played out in legislatures around the country, with red states putting strict limits in place and blue states maintaining wide access to abortion. That’s what was supposed to happen after abortion no longer was protected as a federal constitutional right.

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