ELECTION DAY: Ohio voters are deciding whether to make their state constitution harder to amend. Are you headed to the polls?
, and the issue helped Democrats limit their losses in last year's midterm elections.
Eric Chon, a Columbus resident, said he voted no on Issue 1. To him and other voters at the polls Tuesday, there's a clear anti-abortion agenda to the election, as the GOP voted just last year to get rid of August elections entirely due to low turnout for hyperlocal issues."Every time something doesn’t go their way, they change the rules,” Chon said.
The abortion amendment would give individuals the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions, including on contraception, fertility treatment, abortion and miscarriage care, until a fetus is viable outside the womb. Several legal experts have said there is no language in the amendment supporting the ads' claims, but it follows a pattern through this election cycle ofIssue 1 opponents have aired ads and mobilized a large coalition, including voting rights, labor, faith and community groups, as well as the state Democratic Party.
A man arrives at the Brooklyn Senior Community Center, in Brooklyn, Ohio, Tuesday morning, August 8, 2023, to vote on Issue 1, an abortion rights amendment, during the special election to decide the issue. FILE - A sign asking Ohioans to vote in support of Issue 1 sits above another sign advocating against abortion rights at an event hosted by Created Equal on July 20, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Turnout is robust and misinformation rampant as Ohio concludes a hastily called and highly charged special election Tuesday, a contest that could determine the fate of abortion rights in the state and fuel political playbooks nationally heading into 2024.
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