A special election in Ohio next week will determine if Republicans’ push to protect their state against special interest groups’ abortion activism is successful.
Outside activist groups are aware of the struggles they face when trying to ram their radical abortion and anti-parent agenda through Republican-led states. Ohio, where the governorship, state legislature, secretary of state’s office, and attorney general’s office are controlled by Republicans, is no exception.
Current state law requires a simple majority, 50 percent plus one, for voter-proposed constitutional amendments to be ratified. Issue 1, which Ohio voters will settle on Aug. 8, ensures that the state’s governing document may not be so flippantly modified.
Bigger Than One Ballot Measure
Tuesday’s special election is an explicit attempt by the state GOP to prevent an outsider operation like the one executed in Kansas in 2022 from significantly changing Ohio’s political landscape on abortion, parental rights, and even guns, which Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb has already promised to target via ballot measure.
In Kansas, out-of-state donors and special interest groups that opposed a homegrown pro-life amendment raised millions to expand Midwestern abortion operations. Their deliberately deceptive practices led voters to reject a proposal that would have declared there is no constitutional right in Kansas to abortion, taxpayer-funded or otherwise.
Ohio voters are already facing their first hurdle in a similar battle.
National activist organizations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and various LGBT groups banded together earlier this year to add a ballot proposal that would enshrine
