Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.
Making it harder to change the constitution is an inherently conservative position. That’s basically what conservative means – it’s a desire to keep things mostly how they are (or how they used to be, in the supposed “good old days”).