Ohio has been trending right for years, but gerrymandering ensures that the State Legislature is far more extreme than the population.
Instead, some anti-abortion lawmakers want even stricter anti-abortion laws, and one, Representative Jean Schmidt, has said she’d consider a ban on birth control.
The November ballot initiative to make abortion a constitutional right is a chance for Ohio voters to circumvent their unrepresentative representatives.
With this August initiative, the Republicans are working to head off the voters by essentially asking them to disenfranchise themselves.
Just last December, Ohio Republicans voted to effectively eliminate August special elections because of their expense and low turnout.
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