‘Our Strategy Is Wrong’: Pro-Life Leaders Reflect on Ohio Defeat
After decades of losses kept them on the defensive, the pro-life movement has been caught flat-footed now that the ball is in their court in a post-Roe America.
Ohio voters dealt a blow to the hopes of pro-life advocates across the country on Nov. 7 when they voted to enshrine a right to abortion in their state constitution.
Ohio’s Issue 1, which was approved with the support of 57 percent of voters, is the latest in a string of abortion-related ballot initiatives to grab national attention following the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last year.
