“I support codifying Roe,” Whaley told clevelanddotcom and The Plain Dealer following a roundtable discussion with doctors and medical students. “And Roe has limitations.... I want what we had on June 23.”
that, if elected, her first focus would be on passing an amendment enshrining the abortion rights guaranteed under the Roe decision in the Ohio Constitution.
During the past couple weeks, Whaley and her campaign have focused the former Dayton mayor’s campaign on abortion rights. Most public polling shows DeWine, and Whaley’s campaign is counting on a groundswell of votes from women motivated to defend abortion rights. “It is so out of step with Ohioans, and it just is going to affect our economic development, our overall growth as a state because he is so extreme on this issue,” Whaley said of DeWine.Almost 70% of likely Ohio voters oppose the abortion restrictions in the state’s “heartbeat” law, according to a new USA TODAY Network Ohio/Suffolk University poll
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