Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections.

Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections. The preview comes next week, when Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in their state Constitution. The amendment is the only abortion question on any state’s ballot this year, a spotlight that has generated intense attention from national groups making Ohio a testing ground for fresh campaign messaging some of it misleading. The amendment has drawn more than $60 million dollars in combined spending, so far. The battleground on abortion shifted to the states last summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its Roe v. Wade decision, erasing federal abortion protections that had been in place for half a century. Since then, voters in six states, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont have either supported measures, protecting abortion rights or rejected efforts, aimed at eroding access. Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose advanced ballot language for the Ohio amendment that its supporters say was misleading while Attorney General Dave Yost took the unconventional step of producing his own legal analysis of the amendment. Its supporters say those actions by top state officials could cost them votes.