Ohio voters add abortion rights to state constitution

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Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, was the first to give a speech after the results were announced.

Dr Marcela Azevedo, co-founder of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, spoke of sitting across a woman who wasn’t able to get care for her cancer because of the abortion ban.

Americans have expressed outrage and disagreement over Roe’s overturning in numerous polls, and abortion rights advocates have so far won every abortion-related ballot referendum since Roe’s downfall, including in reliably red states like Kansas and Kentucky.

However, as the only state with an abortion-related referendum in 2023, Ohio was a test of those activists’ ability to sustain that outrage and leverage it to fuel legal change.

In the last few months alone, the effort to champion Issue 1 and abortion rights raised nearly $30m, out-raising anti-abortion forces by roughly $20m.

“Ohioans and voters across the country rejected attempts by Maga Republican elected officials to impose extreme abortion bans that put the health and lives of women in jeopardy, force women to travel hundreds of miles for care, and threaten to criminalize doctors and nurses for providing the healthcare that their patients need and that they are trained to provide,” he said.

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