{"id":11398,"date":"2023-08-08T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:51:22","slug":"ohios-abortion-ban-is-rekindling-a-century-old-battle-over-direct-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11398","title":{"rendered":"Ohio\u2019s Abortion Ban Is Rekindling a Century-Old Battle Over Direct Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In 2019,<\/a> the heavily gerrymandered Legislature passed a deeply unpopular<\/a> bill prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy \u2014 before many women know they are pregnant \u2014 without exceptions for rape or incest. The law is currently on hold, pending judicial review. In response, reproductive rights advocates secured enough petition signatures to put a referendum before the voters this November; if it passes, abortion rights will be enshrined in the Constitution, beyond the Legislature\u2019s ability to meddle.
Given current polling<\/a>, Republicans are expected to lose the November vote, so they\u2019re trying to change the rules mid-game. The gambit is so transparent that even two former GOP governors, Robert Taft and John Kasich, have come out in opposition<\/a>.”
…
“Since 1912, when Ohio joined other states in adopting the referendum system, voters have been able to bypass the state Legislature and amend the constitution by a simple majority. The new measure would require 60 percent support.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/08\/08\/ohio-ballot-republicans-00110169<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In 2019, the heavily gerrymandered Legislature passed a deeply unpopular bill prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy \u2014 before many women know they are pregnant \u2014 without exceptions for rape or incest. The law is currently on hold, pending judicial review. In response, reproductive rights advocates secured enough petition signatures to put a referendum before the voters this November; if it passes, abortion rights will be enshrined in the Constitution, beyond the Legislature\u2019s ability to meddle.<\/p>\n

Given current polling, Republicans are expected to lose the November vote, so they\u2019re trying to change the rules mid-game. The gambit is so transparent that even two former GOP governors, Robert Taft and John Kasich, have come out in opposition.”<\/p>\n

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“Since 1912, when Ohio joined other states in adopting the referendum system, voters have been able to bypass the state Legislature and amend the constitution by a simple majority. The new measure would require 60 percent support.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,321,800,783,1916],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-ohio","tag-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}