Ahead of Ohio abortion vote, a court says some ballot language is misleading, must be rewritten

A wildly divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled late Tuesday that only one element of the disputed ballot language for describing a closely watched fall abortion rights question is misleading and must be rewritten. The decision lets stand most of the word choices targeted in a lawsuit by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the pro-abortion rights ballot campaign, as well as the substitution of “unborn child” for “fetus,” which it chose not to dispute. In June, justices ordered the panel to reword its description of a divisive August that constitutional amendment would have made amending Ohio’s constitution harder.