Before Ohio voters cast their ballots and decide the fate of a proposed constitutional amendment that will radically change the Buckeye State’s approach to abortion and parental rights in November, Ohio will vote on a ballot question on August 8, 2023, that will determine how easily do this to amend the state constitution in the coming years.
In the final days before next week’s special election, Protect Women Ohio (PWO) is rolling out $5.5 million in advertising to the Buckeye State, including $4.5 million in statewide television ads and $1 million in radio and digital that will run through August 8 – all urging Ohioans to vote “yes” on Issue 1 to protect Ohio’s constitution.
In one of the PWO TV spots, he advocates for a higher threshold and emphasizes the importance of parental rights in a conversation with mother and doctor from Cincinnati, Vivina Napier:
As Townhall has previously reported, “Issue 1” set to go to voters next week concerns the threshold needed to amend Ohio’s constitution. Despite opposition from Democratic organizations that prefer that outside groups – such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU – be able to step in and modify the state constitution with a straightforward majority vote – these same entities require greater consensus to change their own organization’s charter.
Another PWO television ad focuses on the need to raise the threshold required to amend Ohio’s constitution to 60 percent – a level used internally by these leftist organizations, but now which they have chosen to hypocritically call “undemocratic” when Ohio intends to apply the same – with Columbus’ mother, April Hunter:
Protect Women Ohio will pass a multimillion-dollar budget in the final week before voters decide whether to better protect the state constitution from changes, as polls show a statistical relationship between the “yes” and “no” camps on Issue 1.
According to Ohio University’s Institute for Citizenship and Public Policy (ICAPP) vote from the second half of July, where the margin of error is +/- 3.7 percent, support for issue 1 is 42 percent, while opposition to issue 1 is 41 percent. The ICAPP poll noted that “perhaps unsurprisingly, Democrats and Republicans are almost evenly divided on the issue, with 56% of Democrats disapproving compared to 53% of Republicans supporting the decision.
Even though the previous August election was “notorious” for low turnout, according to ICAPP, No. 1 is “attracting strong interest” from voters, with more than seven in ten saying they “at least paid some attention, which made the outcome difficult to predict.”
Beyond November’s vote on the radical amendment, its supporters say it is only about granting a supposed “right” to abortion – but in fact abolishing health and safety standards for abortion, eliminating most, if not all, restrictions up to birth and essentially abolishing rights parenting when it comes to child care, including situations involving abortion and irreversible biology altering “therapies” – other issue groups are already looking to make a move in Ohio to take advantage of the low threshold for constitutional amendments.
Even the mayor of Cleveland he said recently that if Issue 1 fails in next week’s special election, Democrats could attempt to undermine Second Amendment rights through constitutional amendments that would require just 50 percent plus one to approve the changes.
