[KrisKrinkle]

Meanwhile in Ohio and the recently passed Constitutional Amendment:

Article I, Section 22. The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

A. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on:

1. contraception;

2. fertility treatment;

3. continuing one’s own pregnancy;

4. miscarriage care; and

5. abortion.

B. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either:

1. An individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or 2. A person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right,

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“Every individual” it says. “Included but not limited to” it says.

So if a 27 year old teacher decides to be impregnated by a 17 year old student, is it constitutionally protected? If a 17 year old student decides to be impregnated by a 27 year old, is it constitutionally protected?

[null and void]

Yes, Ohio constitutionally protected.

Unless it’s a gang bang, then it’s not an individual...

[imabadboy99]

The unborn baby is also an individual.

[Brian Griffin]

“carry out one’s own reproductive decisions”

The Ohio amendment, like Amendment 14 Section 1 equal protection, is limited to individuals and should not be applied to groups of two or more.

[scrabblehack]

There are a couple of very elastic clauses:
“including but not limited to”
and
“directly or indirectly.”