Ohio to hold August election for controversial constitutional amendment proposal.

Ohio lawmakers have set an August 8 election in which voters will decide whether it should be harder for citizens to make future changes to the state constitution, a proposal intended to spoil a potential abortion-rights ballot issue that could come later this year. The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate passed the measure shortly afterward 26-7 on a party-line vote. The votes set up what will be a heated summer election that could be the first round in deciding whether abortion should have broad, difficult to undo legal protections throughout Ohio.