Linda Wagner of Galena holds up a sign during a protest against Issue 1 before the Ohio House session, May 10, 2023, at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photo only with original story.)
Abortion was a key talking point in Ohio’s November election last year, and in the special election held one year ago this week.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose even said last summer that the special election held Aug. 8, 2023 — which proposed to raise the threshold for voters to pass constitutional amendments — was “100%” about stopping last November’s reproductive rights amendment.
Democrats and reproductive rights advocates said Thursday the fight over abortion rights will continue with candidates on the 2024 ballot holding differing views on what the future of abortion should be in the state and country.
Ohio Minority Leader Allison Russo maintained a message that Democrats and others have brought up since the anniversary of the Dobbs decision , the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2022 that put abortion rights into the hands of the states, undoing the national legalization that had been in place since the 1970s.