A proposed measure to enshrine abortion in the Ohio state constitution is all but certain to appear on the November ballot after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of signatures.
Stephen Zenner / OPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images fileA proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion in Ohio's Constitution is all but certain to appear on the November ballot, after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of signatures on Wednesday.
The groups — Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights — had until Wednesday to collect about 413,000 valid signatures across at least 44 of the state’s 88 counties to have the amendment placed on the ballot.The groups, however, said they’d collected nearly twice the needed number of signatures — more than 710,000 — in the event that any were deemed invalid.
“We know that we are going to win in November. We are poised to put this — put abortion rights — in the hands of the voters, and we’re excited to announce this first victory on that,” Sri Thakkilapati, one of the founders of Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, said at a news conference Wednesday morning in Columbus.
Reproductive rights groups delivered 42 boxes of signatures to the state Capitol in Columbus and the office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who will rule on the submission. “Those 42 boxes are filled with hope and dreams of bodily autonomy,” said Kellie Copeland, the executive director of Pro-Choice Ohio, which worked with the groups to advance the measure.If approved, the
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