Analysis: Your vote on Ohio Issue 1 directly impacts November's vote on abortion. Here's how

On Nov. 7, Ohio will become the seventh state to vote on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of last year and left abortion decisions up to the states.

But the fate of that abortion rights amendment in Ohio is inextricably linked to a vote that will come next Tuesday, in a special election that Ohio Republican legislators made happen after abolishing them earlier this year.

Issue 1, the only item on the ballot in next Tuesday's election, would raise the bar for passing constitutional amendments from 50% plus one — as it has been for the past 111 years — to 60%.

If it passes, the job of abortion rights groups in November will be substantially harder and maybe impossible — which is exactly what the Ohio GOP and its fellow abortion rights opponents want.