Abortion Rights Wins Elections
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Tuesday was Election Day in key battleground states. In Ohio, voters codified reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. And over in Kentucky, incumbent Democratic Governor Andy Beshear won reelection over Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. Heather Williams, interim president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, breaks down the results and gives insight on what might happen in next year’s general election.
And in headlines: Israel said its troops have reached the heart of Gaza City, New Delhi is dealing with another year of severe air pollution, and scientists have discovered the oldest known black hole in space.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 8th. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is what a day. |
| 0:11.3 | And yesterday was election day in a bunch of key battleground states. |
| 0:15.8 | On today's show we will also talk about how Israeli forces have reached the heart of |
| 0:20.2 | Gaza City, plus scientists have discovered the oldest known black hole in space. |
| 0:26.6 | But first we're going to recap last night's election results. |
| 0:29.9 | We're recording this on Tuesday night at 930 PM.m. Eastern so some of the closer |
| 0:34.2 | races weren't called by then. We'll follow up on them in Thursday's |
| 0:38.2 | episode. Here's the breakdown of what we do know. Yes, it was a big win for abortion access in Ohio. |
| 0:45.9 | Voters there approved issue one, |
| 0:47.9 | a measure that codified reproductive rights |
| 0:50.8 | into the state's constitution, really exciting. This is all because, as we've |
| 0:55.5 | reported, abortion advocates in the state have been organizing tirelessly to |
| 0:59.8 | protect Ohioans' rights to choice. |
| 1:02.5 | Republicans tried hard to sabotage activists ahead of the vote, |
| 1:06.1 | from changing the language of the measure itself |
| 1:08.5 | to make it more confusing and taking thousands of voters |
| 1:12.1 | off of the state's rolls just weeks before Election Day, |
| 1:15.4 | they also held a last minute special election in August to try and raise the voter threshold |
| 1:20.7 | to amend the state's constitution. but in the end they still lost, we |
| 1:26.5 | prevailed, issue one was approved, really happy to see it. Voters also |
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