Ohioans on both sides of the abortion debate are looking toward November's vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution after anti-abortion advocates on Tuesday lost their push to increase the threshold to pass a referendum amendment.
"I think this just is really going to bring our base together more and make us realize how much more we need to be messaging to all Ohioans and really broadening our base of support," Amy Natoce of Protect Women Ohio, the lead anti-abortion group in the state, told the Washington Examiner.Ohioans voted in a special election on Tuesday on Issue 1, whether to require a super majority of 60% popular vote to add an amendment to the state constitution.
The amendment also would invalidate existing parental consent laws and certain safety regulations for abortion clinics, such as required hospital admittance privileges and proximity to an emergency room. When it’s a worthy cause, and this certainly is, it’s better to have fought and lost than never fought at all.Abortion rights advocates, by contrast, are taking the Issue 1 vote as a sign that they have rallied even greater support for the November vote.
Natoce also said that it is a"tremendous concern" that November's amendment will make Ohio another destination in the Midwest for traveling to obtain an abortion.
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