{"id":1981478,"date":"2023-07-24T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-gop-effort-to-raise-ballot-passage-to-60-crucial-to-tanking-abortion-measure-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:38:50","slug":"ohio-gop-effort-to-raise-ballot-passage-to-60-crucial-to-tanking-abortion-measure-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-gop-effort-to-raise-ballot-passage-to-60-crucial-to-tanking-abortion-measure-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio GOP&#8217;s push for a 60% ballot passage is vital in defeating the abortion measure, reveals poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-gop-effort-to-raise-ballot-passage-to-60-crucial-to-tanking-abortion-measure-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Majority of Ohioans \u200cSupport Proposed State Constitutional Amendment \u2063to Ensure Abortion is Legal<\/h2>\n<p>A new poll from the state of Ohio reveals that a majority of Ohioans are in favor of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roe-may-be-gone-but-red-states-still-face-major-roadblocks-on-abortion-bans\/\" title=\"Roe May Be Gone, But Red States Still Face Major Roadblocks On Abortion Bans\">proposed state constitutional amendment<\/a> \u2062that would protect the \u2064legality of abortion. However, despite the strong support, it may not be \u200denough to overcome a potential supermajority\u200d requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The poll conducted by USA Today shows that 58% of Ohio voters support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pas-democrat-secstate-resigns-after-botching-process-over-amendment-for-child-sex-abuse-victims\/\" title=\"PA\u2019s Democrat SecState Resigns After Botching Process Over Amendment For Child Sex Abuse Victims\">proposed constitutional amendment<\/a>, which aims to prevent the state from enacting\u200c laws that restrict abortion. While this is a significant majority, it falls short of the required 60% threshold, which could pose a\u2062 challenge for \u2062the\u2063 initiative. Additionally, this raises the stakes for an upcoming referendum that seeks to raise the \u200cthreshold for amending the state constitution.<\/p>\n<h3>Club for Growth Pledges to Defend Republicans Critical of McCarthy in 2024<\/h3>\n<p>In August, three months \u2062before the scheduled\u200d vote on the abortion amendment, Ohio voters will also \u2063have the opportunity to vote on Issue 1. This ballot referendum aims to increase the support \u200dthreshold \u200cfor enacting a constitutional amendment to 60%.<\/p>\n<p>The recent poll indicates that opposition to the abortion amendment is only at 32%, with support coming from across party lines. Notably, 85% of independents are in favor \u2064of the \u200camendment. However, the same poll shows that 57% of voters oppose raising the threshold requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b threshold amendment referendum, set to take\u2063 place on August 8, would significantly\u200b raise the level \u200cof support needed \u200cfor the abortion amendment to pass. Currently, \u2062a simple majority of the state&#8217;s\u200c voters is sufficient to change the constitution. Pro-abortion \u200brights groups have \u200dbeen actively mobilizing against the threshold\u200b amendment, \u200carguing that \u200bit undermines the principle of majority rule.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Politicians in Columbus are launching this attack on democracy because they\u2019re out of touch with Ohioans, \u200cand they\u2019re scared of\u200c being held accountable,&#8221; said \u2064Ohioans for\u2062 Reproductive Freedom spokeswoman Kellie Copeland. &#8220;These politicians know that their radical views on abortion care can\u2019t win a \u200bfair vote, so they\u2019re rigging the system. Now, \u200cthose same politicians are trying \u2064to \u2063silence the voice\u2063 of the majority in order to strip Ohioans of the freedom to access the reproductive healthcare they need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amy Natoce, \u200ba spokeswoman for Protect Women Ohio, a women&#8217;s organization opposing the abortion referendum, emphasized the importance of approving the threshold amendment in the upcoming \u2062vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ohioans are\u2062 waking up to the dangers of the \u2064ACLU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-activists-try-to-fool-ohioans-into-constitutional-amendment-threatening-unborn-lives-and-parental-rights\/\" title=\"Ohio abortion activists deceive citizens with constitutional amendment that endangers unborn lives and parental rights.\">anti-parent amendment<\/a>, which \u200dwill allow minors to undergo abortions and sex changes without\u2062 parental notification or consent, remove health and safety protections for\u2063 women, and allow\u200c painful, late-term abortion up until birth,&#8221; Natoce said. &#8220;This radical \u2063agenda will not fly in Ohio and underscores the need to pass Issue 1 to protect Ohio&#8217;s constitution from extreme out-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-foes-say-out-of-state-funds-are-influencing-ohio-constitutional-amendment\/\" title=\"Out-of-state funds accused of influencing Ohio constitutional amendment by abortion opponents.\">-state special interest\u200b groups<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from\u200b The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Ohio poll reveals that most Ohioans back a state constitutional amendment to legalize abortion. However, the support falls short of meeting the potential supermajority requirement. According to USA Today&#8217;s survey, 58% of Ohio voters favor the proposed amendment, which aims to prevent the state from banning abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}