How Ohio's Issue 1 could affect the rest of the country

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : But Cirino said passing Issue 1 would have a positive impact beyond abortion.
50% : As legislators voted, hundreds of protestors, including law enforcement, union workers and nurses, demonstrated outside the chambers.
49% :LaRose, who for months had denied that Issue 1 was about abortion, added that the higher threshold for approval also would be useful down the road to combat other "dangerous plans" from "the left," including raising the minimum wage and legalizing marijuana.
49% :Shut out of state capitols, progressives in many states poured resources into the ballot initiative process, which they've used throughout the last decade -- including in deep-red states like Utah, Idaho, Kansas, and Arkansas -- to expand access to Medicaid, protect abortion rights, boost the minimum wage, establish paid sick leave, reform the redistricting process, liberalize voting rules, legalize marijuana and more.
48% : One declares: "Out-of-state special interests that put trans ideology in classrooms and encourage sex-changes for kids are hiding behind slick ads."
42% : "After decades of Republicans' work to make Ohio a pro-life state, the Left intends to write abortion on demand into Ohio's Constitution," Rep. Brian Stewart, a leader of the push for Issue 1, wrote in a letter to colleagues in December.
40% : "The founding fathers designed it that way, so that the Constitution could not be changed on a willy-nilly basis.""Yes" campaign leaders have mostly tried to publicly downplay the role of abortion in the effort.
37% : "If they succeed, all the work we accomplished by multiple Republican majorities will be undone.""Some people say this is all about abortion," Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, said in May, in a video.
35% : "I do not want abortion to go up to the date of birth," said Dlugos.
34% :Abortion accessOhio's Issue 1 popped up because of one reason: abortion.
34% : In fact, the proposed abortion-rights ballot measure would allow for abortion to be banned "after fetal viability," unless a pregnant patient's life or health were at risk.
29% : A quarter-century ago, conservatives started using the initiative process -- which exists in about half of all states -- to make gains they were unable to achieve through legislation, on issues from voter ID to criminal justice to same-sex marriage.

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