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This Tuesday, the Democratic Party achieved several important victories during state elections in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky, in which abortion was positioned as a central issue, demonstrating the importance that the electorate gives to reproductive rights in the face of the 2024 presidential elections.
The most obvious triumph of the movement in favor of access to abortionwhich has been championed as a democratic cause following the Supreme Court decision that removed federal protection from this procedure in June 2022, was in Ohio.
LOOK: Ohio votes to approve abortion as a constitutional right in the state
Voters in this state decided to enshrine the voluntary termination of pregnancy as a constitutional right through a referendumaccording to electoral projections from the main North American media.
The measure, which emerged as “Edition 1” (Edition 1) at the polls and sought to include in the state constitution an “individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment”, constitutes a victory for the movement in favor of abortion in the USA
With the voters’ decision in Ohio This Tuesday, the state becomes the seventh to vote against restrictions on access to abortion, Since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs. Wade.
Together with the reproductive health measure, Ohioans also voted this Tuesday to legalize the recreational use of marijuanabecoming the 24th state to decriminalize the substance.
State legislative elections Virginiawhich gave control of both chambers of the House to Democrats, were also crossed by the abortion.
The state governor, the Republican Glenn Youngkinhad promised that if his party won a majority after today’s elections, it would ban the procedure after 15 weeks, with few exceptions.
The victory of the Democrats in this state, the only one in the southern United States that allows abortion without many restrictions (it is legal until week 26), it is also a blow to Youngkin’s conservative project, who had not ruled out running as a pre-candidate for the 2024 presidential elections.
President Joe Biden, who has already announced his intention to run for re-election, was quick to grant this victory to his party.
“Tonight, Americans voted again to protect their fundamental freedoms and hard-earned freedoms,” the president wrote on his Twitter account.
The states of Kentucky and Mississippi also held elections this Tuesday to elect their governor.
In Kentuckythe democrat Andy Beshear was re-electedmaintaining control of the executive in a state where the Republican Party predominates in presidential elections and controls the state legislature.
Beshearwhich already enjoyed good popularity among the electorate, embraced abortion as one of its main campaign themes against the ultra-conservative Daniel Cameron.
He democrat During the campaign, she harshly criticized the legislation in force in her state, which criminalizes the procedure in most cases, including rape and incest.
As he said in a speech after learning of his victory, the state made the decision today to “move not to the right or to the left, but for the progress of each and every family” in the state.
In Mississippion the other hand, Republicans maintained control of state government with Tate Reeves’ victorywho will assume a second term.
The conservative politician, who campaigned against Brandon PresleyA member of the state Public Service Commission and cousin of singer Elvis Presley, he focused his campaign on criticizing Democratic policies to protect the LGTBI community and immigration.
Source: Elcomercio
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