I’m reading the ballot question, and I’m not seeing this. Can you point out this language in the question, please?
From ABC News:
“Ohio liberals account for 35% of voters in Tuesday’s preliminary exit poll results, up from 20% in the 2022 midterms and 21% in the 2020 presidential election. If that holds, it’ll be a record high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.”
Something to be said for getting out and voting, instead of just bitching and moaning.
Ohio a red state? Not so fast.
And in my state of Kentucky, home of Red State Barbecue, voters decided not to elect a Trump fanboy as Governor. Go Big Blue! 
As a woman in Ohio, who hopes to forever live in Ohio, and who has nieces that I hope always live in Ohio, I am super fucking relieved.
Gerrymandered to all hell.
I don’t; I think it is indicative of a rising number of voters who are absolute about abortion rights. For all those years when they thought it wasn’t really at risk, it was one thing among many that they cared about. Now it has risen to a litmus-test level.
It would be absolutely delicious if the final score for Yes was at least 60%, so that the QOP’s attempt at sabotaging democracy wouldn’t have mattered even if it had passed.
What does this mean? What is a “mandated” abortion? All women required to abort?
As a Buckeye born and raised, I am relieved, pleased and very proud of my state tonight. O-H!
Republicans: Leave abortion to the states!
No! Not like that!
Text of the Amendment, from that link at the Ohio State Department election site:
Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio that Article I of the Ohio Constitution is amended to add the following Section:
Article I, Section 22. The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety
A. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on:
- contraception;
- fertility treatment;
- continuing one’s own pregnancy;
- miscarriage care; and
- abortion.
B. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either:
- An individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or
- A person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care.
However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited if in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.
C. As used in this Section:
- “Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case-by-case basis.”
- “State” includes any governmental entity and any political subdivision.
D. This Section is self-executing
As I read it the amendment would prevent the State or any county or city or special district from overruling any reproductive decision between the woman and the physician, whether to terminate or continue pre-viable pregnancy, or to use or not use contraception or obtain fertility treatment, though it can still require the parties to observe the “least restrictive” regulation to ensure evidence-based standards of care.
It’s not a shift. The anti-choice crowd has always been loud, but it’s never been a majority. Taking away our freedom of choice made the issue crystal clear.
I also think this puts gerrymandered Republicans in a lot of danger. Depends how much they continue to beat the anti-choice drum.
I-O!
I couldn’t leave you hanging. 
I’m so chuffed about almost all of the election results tonight. Mississippi had to go and mess everything up.
Happy to be in Ohio.
Gift link to WaPo polling results around who voted for this measure and why
You want the full text, not just what’s on the ballot.
The very first paragraph:
So an individual has the right to choose to have an abortion, and also the right to choose not to have an abortion.
Probably not all women, no. But it’s entirely within Republican principles to require abortion of anchor babies, or as a condition for continuing to receive welfare.
This is an extreme distortion of Republican ideas, evidenced by the fact that there’s not (to my knowledge) a single Republican official in all the thousands of Republican officials out there who have advocated for either of these ideas. C’mon, this ain’t gonna happen.
Speaking as someone who votes Republican and was strongly in favor of striking down Roe, this is exactly what I wanted.
It’s very telling that Ohio Republicans were afraid to simply put the text of the amendment on the ballot. Instead, they replaced it with a misleading “summary,” designed to arouse emotions about parental consent of gender-affirming procedures.
More on this, from The NY Times four days ago: “ The amendment explicitly allows the state to ban abortion after viability, or around 23 weeks, when the fetus can survive outside the uterus, unless the pregnant woman’s doctor finds the procedure “is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.”
But that language does not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters see a summary from the secretary of state, Frank LaRose, a Republican who opposes abortion and pushed the August ballot measure to try to thwart the abortion rights amendment. That summary turns the provision on viability on its head, saying the amendment “would always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability.”
Yet again, they show that they can’t win unless they rig it (gerrymandering, January 6…).
How very “open minded” of you. What about the rights of people in say TX and MS where the Conservatives have made it so there’s no initiative process?
OK, that’s clear. But that’s also a far cry from stating the amendment ‘will prohibit the government from mandating abortion.’
Nobody has ever claimed that any governmental entity can force a woman to have an abortion.
I think you’re trying to read something into the amendment that really isn’t there.
Regardless, it passed, overwhelmingly.