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"Winning in red states is inspiring. Ohio really has taken this ballot measure strategy to protect abortion rights to the next level," said Kelly Hall, executive director of The Fairness Project, a progressive nonprofit."

“Ballot measures are one of – if not the most – powerful tools we have to defend reproductive rights in a post-Roe nation, and this work will continue," Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall said in a statement. "Next, we are ready to fight alongside Arizona for Abortion Access in 2024 to secure reproductive freedom for all."

“To their credit, extremist politicians in Ohio recognized pretty early this year that they were deeply out of sync with their electorate [on abortion],” says Kelly Hall of the Fairness Project, a group that works on ballot measures around the country.

SARAH MCCAMMON: "I talked to Kelly Hall with The Fairness Project last night. That's a group that advocates for the use of ballot measures to advance progressive policies...

“This incredible win proves what we’ve known since Dobbs: that voters are tired of seeing their politicians fail and are prepared to take on major fights to defend reproductive freedom themselves,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a nonprofit that promotes economic and social justice issues via ballot initiatives.

Kelly Hall, executive director of Fairness Project, which helps organize ballot-measure campaigns across the country, said of Ohio’s ballot measure, “This incredible win proves what we’ve known since Dobbs: that voters are tired of seeing their politicians fail and are prepared to take on major fights to defend reproductive freedom themselves."

Democrats spent a significant amount of money in support of Issue 1; the ACLU, the Fairness Project and the Sixteen Thirty Fund contributed millions of dollars to several PACs, including Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights.

Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that provides support for progressive ballot initiatives, said that the election result sent “a clear message to other extremist officials around the country that democracy will not die.”