As Democrats debate whether President Joe Biden should run for another term, Republican officials back Donald Trump and his agenda for the next four years, according to the party’s recently released platform, which is expected to be approved at the Republican National Convention starting in Milwaukee.
The Colorado House and Senate passed “Protecting the Freedom to Marry” resolution, which, if approved by voters in November, would amend the state’s constitution by eliminating the ban on same-sex marriage. Although same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015 with the Obergefell v. Hodges’ decision, the Colorado Constitution still contained this unconstitutional language.
This month voters in Ohio passed a ballot initiative, Issue 1, that enshrined reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution — contraception, fertility treatment, abortion, and miscarriage care — restoring Roe v. Wade-era access in Ohio and protecting “the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability.” Former President Donald Trump carried Ohio with 53% of the vote in 2020, but 56.6% of voters supported Issue 1. Ohio joins California, Michigan, and Vermont in amending their state constitutions to protect abortion, and this has anti-abortion activists concerned.
