08/10/2023 06:55 AM EDT
Presented by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Good Thursday morning!
It happened again. Another state’s voters soundly rejected an abortion-related ballot question, siding with abortion rights. In this case it was Ohio, where a question that would make it harder to amend the state Constitution — an attempt by that state’s Republicans to doom a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights — failed, with 57 percent voting against it. That follows defeats of anti-abortion measure in even redder sates, like Kansas and Kentucky.
Some New Jersey Democrats I talked to Wednesday wish they had an abortion-related question on the ballot this year. They almost did. You may recall that in November, Democrats were moving quickly to put a question on this year’s ballot that would write abortion rights into the state Constitution. But the effort faltered, largely because abortion rights groups didn’t want it.
Now, Democrats appear to be are running scared on other issues. Senate President Nicholas Scutari and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin have both put out defensive statements pushing back on Murphy administration-led efforts on gender neutral language in education and offshore wind. Would an abortion ballot question have put the wind at New Jersey Democrats’ backs? (No pun intended.)
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