Ahead of a November vote on abortion rights, Republican lawmakers want voters to make it more difficult to amend the state constitution.
“Ohio is going to shape the contours of this conversation going forward,” said Sarah Walker, the policy and legal advocacy director at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which helps with liberal ballot measures.She added, “If it’s a resounding defeat, it will send a very strong message that it is not in the interest of policymakers to attempt to restrict the citizen-initiative process.”
to raise the bar for constitutional amendments, or make it harder for them to get on the ballot in the first place. In Ohio, millions of dollars have flowed to both opponents and proponents of the measure, from within the state and outside it. Groups that support the November abortion rights effort and those opposing Tuesday’s ballot measure have raised about $25 million. Those on the other side have secured about $20 million, according to campaign finance filings.
“A simple 50 percent-plus-one majority shouldn’t be able to change the rules that we use to govern our state,” said Frank LaRose, Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, who hasAbortion rights advocates have banded together with other groups to reject Tuesday’s measure. They acknowledge that passage of Tuesday’s measure would make it more challenging to pass the abortion rights initiative and require an even bigger campaign — and more money.
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