Ohio citizens take a selfie showing that they voted this Tuesday in Columbus, the capital of the Midwestern state. MEGAN JELINGER (Portal)
Voters in Ohio supported abortion protections in this Midwestern state in Tuesday’s election. They said yes to problem number 1; The question was whether they wanted to add an amendment to their constitution that would guarantee the legality of abortion until the fetus is viable. Since the Supreme Court upheld the Roe v. precedent in June 2022, After overturning the Wade ruling (1973), which had allowed women to make decisions about their pregnancy regardless of where they lived in the United States for half a century, she has been subject to seven votes on abortion rights. And in all seven cases, the response was the same: ensuring their protection.
The news, reported by the American media, represents a major setback for the anti-abortion movement in the United States, which has struggled for decades to get the Supreme Court, the most conservative in eight decades, to agree with them, despite what polls suggest Two-thirds of the American population wants reproductive freedom.
The one in Ohio, where marijuana has also been legalized, was one of hundreds of Election Day polls held each year on the second Tuesday in November. This time, votes were cast on governorships like Mississippi, statehouse renovations, and other issues of all sorts. The abortion question in Ohio was perhaps the issue of greatest national importance, although not the only vote on which this issue was based. The Democratic governor of Kentucky, another Republican state, was re-elected after attacking his Republican rival during the campaign over his initial support for an anti-abortion law that did not allow exceptions in cases of incest and rape. Meanwhile, in Virginia, both the Congress and the Senate are being renewed. If Republicans, led by promising Gov. Glenn Youngkin, wrest it from Democrats, they would have a clear path to passing a law lowering Virginia’s abortion limit to 15 weeks.
Ohio has been the so-called red state since the emergence of Donald Trump in 2016 due to its tendency to vote conservative. The Republican Party has waged a bitter “no” campaign that has had no impact on its supporters. It wasn’t the first time Ohioans voted on the issue this year. Gov. Mike DeWine forced a consultation over the summer to force that constitutional amendments like the one recently passed can only be approved with a qualified majority (60%) of the vote. It was designed precisely to make voting difficult this Tuesday. His compatriots rejected the rule change.
After the Supreme Court decision, the governor signed a law setting the limit for a legal abortion at six weeks. This is a time limit that is set from the moment when the first signs of life of the fetus become noticeable and which in practice amounts to a total ban, since most mothers do not yet know that this is the case is. This limit was in effect for 82 days before the justices overturned it and abortions were again permitted in Ohio until around twenty-third weeks. There was enough time before the horrific case of a 10-year-old girl who was raped when she had to travel to neighboring Indiana to have an abortion made national headlines.
In the days leading up to the election, abortion groups criticized Republican authorities’ “confusing” wording of the question. Many voters did not know what a yes or no vote meant. The consultation’s proponents, a group of citizens led by several doctors, tried to push an amendment that would prohibit the state from passing a law setting a limit on abortion below 23 weeks, but the text of the ballot is written A summary was provided by Secretary of State Frank LaRose that falsely claimed that the amendment would “always permit the abortion of an unborn child at any time during pregnancy, without regard to viability.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, along with other prominent Republicans who paid for expensive television ads, have fertilized the field of misinformation by supporting the no vote on the grounds that the amendment would allow teenagers to have abortions without Parental consent is required, an argument that has been rejected by prominent constitutional lawyers.
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights (OURR) spokesman Gabriel Mann defined these attempts before the vote as “an unprecedented pattern of deception and interference by all three branches of Ohio government to block Issue 1 and control decisions.” Private health care for Ohioans.” “Abortion rights opponents have shown us clearly, time and time again, that when they think they can’t win, they try to cheat,” he said.