Last week’s constitutional amendment vote in Ohio is just the start of a wide-ranging plan to obliterate abortion limits in red states, say pro-life advocates, who are urging Republican leaders, starting with the presidential primary candidates, to fight back.
Leaders of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America urged the GOP hopefuls to make a forceful case for abortion limits next week at their first primary debate, Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, arguing that the “ostrich strategy” is threatening the pro-life measures passed in 25 states since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
The “head-in-the-sand [strategy] will communicate expected losses, and that is not to be abided,” she said. Pro-choice advocates won a key victory in the Aug. 8 special election when voters defeated Ohio Issue 1, which would have required proposed state constitutional amendments to pass with 60% of the vote. The measure lost 57% to 43%.
Restrictions on abortion were passed or automatically enacted via trigger laws in 25 red states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 in the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, sending decision-making on pregnancy termination back to the states. He said it was “anything but a grassroots effort,” warning there is “big, big money flowing into the states” to wage the ballot fights.
“I think Mike Pence and Tim Scott have been the most clear so far,” she said. “They’ve made it very clear that they’re pro-life, but where did they start? They started by attacking late-term abortion. They’re being clear, they’re being concise, and they do a good job of going on offense when they say where the Democrats stand.”
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