The fight over abortion in Ohio will test whether vulnerable Democrats can turn public support for abortion rights into campaign victories — even if the elections are a year apart.
Democrats up for reelection next year in an increasingly red Ohio are throwing themselves into this November’s ballot fight to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution.
“Democratic candidates are being told that support for abortion is the magic bullet — the special weapon that’s going to help them win,” Carol Tobias, the president of the National Right to Life Committee, told anti-abortion activists on a webcast Tuesday night. “So stopping this measure in Ohio is going to bring those efforts not definitely to a halt, but it’s going to at least make everybody stop and think that maybe this isn’t quite the issue that they thought it was.
“A lot of the professional political class is looking at Ohio and saying: ‘It’s not really winnable anymore,’” lamented Matt Caffrey, the Ohio-based organizing director for the group Swing Left. “And, sure, we’ve been beaten down by some tough losses. But this referendum is a critical step, because it demonstrates to people across the country that this is a place worth fighting for, not some deep red hellhole.
The party has thrown its weight behind the referendum, gathering a large portion of the signatures needed to get it on the ballot and funding get-out-the-vote efforts, and Walters said she now sees several benefits to holding the referendum in an off-year. “I used to be one of the frustrated Democrats hoping to hear more from our candidates about why we should have complete control of our own bodies,” Sykes said in an interview. “But in the last few years I have been very encouraged by the seismic shift in the willingness of Democrats to talk about access to reproductive rights.”
“I’ve always stood up for women’s reproductive health, I’ve always stood for human rights, and I’ve always stood for the dignity of work and that’s why, frankly, not to sound arrogant, I’ve done well in a state where not many Democrats are winning,” he said.
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