{"id":301382,"date":"2023-11-09T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=301382"},"modified":"2023-11-08T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T22:15:44","slug":"ohio-political-setback-pro-lifers-defend-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-political-setback-pro-lifers-defend-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio is a political setback, but pro-lifers must continue to defend life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) On Tuesday, pro-lifers encountered a setback when Issue 1 passed in Ohio by a margin of 56.6 to 43.4 percent. This places legal abortion in Ohio\u2019s state constitution and jeopardizes many commonsense pro-life laws in the Buckeye State. Pro-lifers had some reasons for optimism going into this election. Ohio has a more conservative electorate than Michigan and some other states where pro-abortion ballot propositions prevailed. Ohio pro-lifers got off to an earlier start and had the public support of popular Governor Mike DeWine. Unfortunately, the $35 million spent by supporters of legal abortion was too much for pro-lifers to overcome.<\/p>\n

The mainstream media will doubtless swoon and gloat over Tuesday\u2019s victory. They will remind everyone that supporters of legal abortion have now won seven straight ballot propositions. However, what has often been overlooked in the results of the 2022 and 2023 elections is that supporters of legal abortion have enjoyed precious little success changing public policy at the state level. Indeed, to this day, not one strong post-Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0pro-life law has been struck down by a pro-abortion ballot proposition. Furthermore, nearly all of the strong pro-life laws that are currently in place are in strong positions politically and are unlikely to be repealed via direct democracy.<\/p>\n