Ohio is shaping up to be the next battleground for abortion rights. The Ohio Ballot Board certified petition language that proposes enshrining abortion rights in the state’s constitution.
Ohio is shaping up to be the next big battleground in the state-by-state fight over abortion rights.submitted by Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, which proposes enshrining abortion rights in the state’s constitution. That step allows organizers to start collecting signatures for their effort to get on the ballot this November. More than 400,000 signatures have to be submitted by July, but organizers are aiming to gather more than 700,000.
Lauren Beene, the executive director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, said her organization has already been communicating with activists in states that had ballot initiatives in 2022. She added that she hoped Ohio could be a stepping stone for similar measures next year. “We know that a number of states are likely going to do this in 2024, so we’re hoping that we can just continue to build this experience that other people can then take to the 2024 ballot,” she told Score.
“A lot of our organizations really buy into relational organizing, so we have relationships with our member base, whether it’s an off-year or not,” said Jordyn Close of Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, where she serves as co-chair of the organizing committee. “We as an entire state are riding the momentum of the other states we’ve seen across the nation have really successful reproductive freedom campaign initiatives.
The pro-abortion rights effort in Ohio will see some veterans of other recent ballot initiative fights pitch in — namely Mission Control Inc., which worked on the campaigns against the anti-abortion ballot proposals in Kansas and Kentucky last year. Liftoff Campaigns,Ohio’s initiative is sure to come with a high cost. Last year, the pro-abortion rights initiative in Michigan raised
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