
Ohio voters showed up in force for a special election Tuesday to defeat a Republican-led effort that would have made it more difficult to codify abortion protections, showing reproductive rights remains a galvanizing issue at the ballot box. “It’s the politicians that are the problem and not the actual people,” Maggie Olivia, an abortion rights activist with the group Abortion Action Missouri, said in an interview with Vanity Fair. Perhaps in a tacit acknowledgment of the sheer unpopularity of their antiabortion agenda, Republicans have become increasingly creative, and sneaky, in...