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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."
Ohioans today voted to approve Issue 1, a ballot measure that will codify reproductive freedom, including abortion rights, in the state’s constitution. The Ohioans United for Reproductive rights campaign, supported by the Fairness Project, won its “Yes” campaign Tuesday night.
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.”
Ohio voters head to the polls today to decide on a crucial ballot measure to secure their reproductive rights — the second major battleground state, after Michigan, to vote on a citizen-initiated abortion rights measure since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
“We are spending more time, energy and actual money trying to anticipate all the different ways that these ballot measures could be vulnerable than we ever have,” said Alexis Magnan-Callaway, communications and digital strategy director for the Fairness Project, another group that champions ballot measures.
Hall says her group is anxiously waiting to see which other states have similar measures on deck in 2024. (Arizona and Florida, where anti-abortion lawmakers have attempted to implement serious restrictions, are both possibilities.)
With less than a week until Election Day for a crucial abortion rights ballot measure in Ohio, advocates for reproductive freedom are exceeding their get-out-the-vote goals and seeing record turnout for early voting.
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