GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:29 pm
There's nothing they won't spin
Let's see how the misogynists spin this, now and in Nov.
Bellwether? Ohio voters back abortion rights amendment in a test case for other 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....
The battle in Ohio, the only state likely to have an abortion measure on the ballot in November's off-year election, is being watched by activists nationwide who are considering a push for state-based initiatives in the next election cycle to codify or restore abortion rights. That could include swing states such as Arizona and reliably red ones like
Florida, Missouri and South Dakota.
58%-32% is a huge spread to overcome in just over 3 months. Truckloads of money will be spent.
... Opponents of abortion are also watching Ohio for lessons on how to combat the initiatives. "I certainly anticipate other states to be looking at us and the model we used," said Amy Natoce of Protect Women Ohio, a coalition opposing the proposal....
group name. There's nothing they won't spin.
The first hurdle: How many votes needed to pass it?
... A special election on Aug. 8 could change the prospects for passage.
Now, ballot measures in Ohio need a simple majority, 50% plus one, to amend the state constitution. Under the proposal being voted on next month, the bar would be raised to 60%. Support in the new survey for the abortion-rights measure, at 58%, would fall just short of that level.
In the poll, Ohioans opposed raising the threshold by more than 2-1, 57%-26%.
57%-26% is an impossible spread to overcome in just 2 weeks.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose faces a deadline Tuesday to announce if proponents gathered enough valid signatures to put the abortion rights measure on the November ballot as well as a proposal to legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults.
The Republican could lie and obstruct, but he
"is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 election, challenging incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown."
Who supports the abortion amendment in Ohio?
Love both signs!
The proposed amendment to the Ohio constitution states that "every individual has a right to make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion." Abortion could be banned after viability when a fetus could survive outside the womb.
After being read the ballot measure's language, women surveyed supported the measure by more than 2-1, 64%-28%. Men backed it by 50%-37%.
White respondents backed it by 57%-34% and minority respondents by 66%-24%.
A majority of those at all levels of education expressed support, from those with no more than a high school diploma (52%-39%) to those with post-graduate degrees (65%-26%).
Support also spanned all age groups. It was strongest among young voters; those 18 to 34 years old backed it by close to 3-1, 69%-25%. Seniors 65 and older comprised the age group who supported it by the smallest margin, 48%-40%....
In Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in 2019 signed a "Heartbeat Bill" that effectively criminalizes abortion at six weeks, when cardiac activity can be detected in the embryo. The Ohio Supreme Court is now considering whether to allow the law to go into effect.
GOFreedomGO!
Wimps and liars.
I predict that state and national women and their allies will step up with the resources to qualify the amendment for the ballot.
, even the current corrupt RW SCOTUS sometimes does the right thing.
