BEAVERCREEK, Ohio — Leesa Howard thinks abortion should be rare and not used for “birth control.” She’ll readily vote next year for Donald Trump, backing the man who remade the Supreme Court to endBut Howard, 53, also knows a woman who got pregnant in high school and said an abortion kept her life on track. She plans to vote “yes” this week on an Ohio ballot measure that would enshrine access to the procedure in the state constitution.
recent evening from her shift at Target. “We give that right away, might as well give all our rights away.” It also underscores how the issue of abortion access can scramble typical party lines. Fifteen counties that favored Trump for president in 2020 voted against raising the threshold to amend the constitution from a simple majority to 60 percent.Howard lives in one of these counties, Greene County, near Dayton. In 2020, it broke for Trump by nearly 20 points, but in August, it voted against raising the constitutional amendment threshold by less than a point.