
COLUMBUS, Ohio – National abortion opponents used Ohio as a test market this year as they continued their search for a way to defeat abortion access at the ballot box. Ahead of Tuesday’s election, they took a scattershot approach to trying to defeat state Issue 1. Like in other states, they first tried to tie the measure to myriad, non-abortion related issues, such as gender identity, parental consent laws and even human trafficking. They largely dropped the claims, determining voters didn’t find them believable. In a completely new approach for...