When You Can’t Win, Change The Rules 🟐 Abortion And Ohio’s Issue 1

Only Sky ✒ When a stacked Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade, it was a victory for the religious right that they’d been pursuing for decades. It may yet be a victory they’ll come to regret.

Adam Lee

17-July-2023

In 2022, reproductive freedom won everywhere it was on the ballot. Wherever Americans had the chance to vote directly on protecting abortion rights, they chose to do so.

Choice won in California and Vermont (no surprises there). But it also won in swing-state Michigan, as well as in deep-red states like Kentucky, Montana, and Kansas.

This winning streak affirms what polls have shown: across state and party lines, a solid majority of Americans support abortion rights. The noisy, belligerent anti-choice movement is a minority. The only reason they’ve enjoyed success is because of gerrymandered legislatures, popular-vote-losing presidents, and other anti-democratic quirks of the American system that allow a minority to overrule the wishes of the majority.
Choice in the Buckeye State

Defenders of bodily autonomy are eager to replicate last year’s successes. One of the states they’ve set their sights on is Ohio.

Like other states with Republican-controlled legislatures, Ohio wasted no time passing an abortion ban.

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