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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julie Carr Smyth

Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure

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Voters in Ohio will likely decide if the state’s constitution should enshrine the right to abortion care, after abortion rights advocates collected tens of thousands of signatures on a petition to put the issue on ballots this fall.

If certified, those 710,000 signatures – roughly 300,000 more than required by state law – will place a proposed constitutional amendment asking whether “every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s reproductive decisions.”

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