Ohio vote shows power of abortion rights at the ballot box

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% :"Other states are watching how this plays out in Ohio, and it may give anti-abortion groups in other states another strategy to threaten abortion rights elsewhere," she said.
52% : While the November question pertains strictly to Ohio, access to abortion there is pivotal to access across the Midwest, said Alison Dreith, director of strategic partnership for the abortion fund Midwest Access Coalition.
47% : Last year, 59% of Ohio voters said abortion should generally be legal, according to AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the electorate.
47% :Dreith said that since abortion hasn't been on a major ballot since last year, the Ohio vote this fall is "a good reminder" for the rest of the country.
47% : "Abortion is always on the ballot -- if not literally but figuratively through the politicians we elect to serve us," she said.
45% : Ohio's GOP-led state government in 2019 approved a ban on abortion after cardiac activity is detected -- around six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant -- but the ban was not enforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which granted a federal right to the procedure.
43% : Abortion wasn't technically on the ballot in Ohio's special election.
42% : The November ballot question will ask voters whether individuals should have the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions, including contraception, abortion, fertility treatment and miscarriage care.
41% : Last month, a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found the majority of U.S. adults want abortion to be legal at least through the initial stages of pregnancy.
39% : Nine Midwestern states -- Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin -- are considered restrictive, very restrictive or most restrictive of abortion rights by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports legal access to abortion.
36% : The poll found that opinions on abortion remain complex, with most people believing abortion should be allowed in some circumstances and not in others.
36% : "There was this idea that we couldn't win on abortion in red states and that idea has really been smashed," McGuire said.

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