After Ohio Win, Pro-Abortion Activists Set Their Sights on Arizona

Townhall ^ | 08/12/2023 | Madeline Leesman

[SeekAndFind]

On Tuesday, pro-abortion organizations began to urge Arizona voters to create a constitutional right to abortion, a trend occurring in several battleground states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

According to The Washington Post, the ballot initiative is spearheaded by several major pro-abortion organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, NARAL Arizona, Affirm Sexual and Reproductive Health, Arizona List, and Healthcare Rising Arizona. Abortions in the state are currently limited to 15 weeks.

Pro-abortion Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs reportedly said that she was “confident that Arizonans will vote for reproductive freedom next November.” The coalition aims to gain more than a half-million signatures to make it to the ballot.

Maria Birnbaum, the Arizona state director for the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called the proposed amendment  “repugnant to the values of our state.”

“Arizonans believe in protecting the unborn and serving their mothers,” she added.

This week, Ohio voters struck down Issue 1, a measure that would have raised the threshold for votes needed to change the state’s constitution. If passed, Issue 1 would have required 60 percent of the vote or more to amend the state’s constitution. 

This pivotal vote came ahead of the November, where pro-abortion radicals have put a proposed amendment on the ballot that would enshrine abortion access and access to transgender care in the state’s constitution.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said in a statement that “Ohioans will see the devastating impact of this vote soon enough.” 

When it’s a worthy cause, and this certainly is, it’s better to have fought and lost than never fought at all.

My statement on Issue 1:


pic.twitter.com/Va9T7iGYMz— Frank LaRose (@FrankLaRose) August 9, 2023

As Townhall covered, pro-life groups like Protect Women Ohio have detailed how the amendment could allow for almost unlimited abortion in the state. Townhall also covered how a recent poll claimed that a majority of likely Ohio voters would support this amendment.

“This extreme anti-life, anti-parent amendment from the ACLU provides no protections for the preborn through all nine months of pregnancy and attacks a parent's right even to know if their child is seeking an abortion or gender surgery,”  Peter Range, the chief executive of Ohio Right to Life, said in a statement.

[Recovering_Democrat]

pray

[FlingWingFlyer]

LaRose is a friggin’ BABY KILLER!

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

I wonder how many tax dollars are funneled into pro abortion groups as opposed to pro life groups.

The left loves using our tax dollars against us while the Republicans do nothing about it.

[Bullish]

It means the world to them to murder babies. God will not appreciate that.

[j.havenfarm]

I think the response is to put 12 or 15 week bans on the ballot. Campaign materials should have pictures of babies at that stage of development. Better to save some than keep getting our brains bashed in and enshrining unfettered abortion adopted in state after state

[MinorityRepublican]

Arizona voters to create a constitutional right to abortion

Many states are going to allow their voters to do that. And in many of them, you can vote on a referendum/initiative and/or a constitutional right to abortion.

Time for the Republicans to realize this and declare that we are pro-choice and move on. There are more important issues to fight.

[MinorityRepublican]

I think the response is to put 12 or 15 week bans on the ballot.

It's probably too late to do that. In some states, its 6 week. Most voters are not going to want that (except for maybe Alabama?)

[joesbucks]

Why would you say that?

[Jim from C-Town]

They haven’t won yet, but it doesn’t look good.

[No name given]

That’s correct!

[South Dakota]

Kartel katie will be all over this.
Marcopa county for the win

[Brian Griffin]

Madame, we have no record of a child of yours paying FICA taxes. You’ll have to wait another five years.

[BillyBoy]

>> Time for the Republicans to realize this and declare that we are pro-choice and move on. There are more important issues to fight. <<

Well, HELLO, Sen. Susan Collins! I didn't know you had an account on FR! How are things back home in Maine? Sponsor any good "bipartisan" legislation with your thoughtful, consensus-building pals "on the other side of the aisle" lately?

[joesbucks]

Actually Hannity said the same thing Thursday night.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-suggests-sobering-ohio-vote-shows-gop-might-be-too-extreme-on-abortion

[MinorityRepublican]

Sen. Susan Collins

At least I get to lead the way.

[MinorityRepublican]

They haven’t won yet, but it doesn’t look good.

It's over. There is a pro-life minority in the Republican Party. But their issue is not popular with the American public.

[Republican Wildcat]

As Townhall covered, pro-life groups like Protect Women Ohio have detailed how the amendment could allow for almost unlimited abortion in the state. Townhall also covered how a recent poll claimed that a majority of likely Ohio voters would support this amendment. “This extreme anti-life, anti-parent amendment from the ACLU provides no protections for the preborn through all nine months of pregnancy and attacks a parent's right even to know if their child is seeking an abortion or gender surgery,” Peter Range, the chief executive of Ohio Right to Life, said in a statement.

But will anyone know that? The Left's ads will probably be warm, thoughtful ads from clergymen, grandmothers, etc. talking about how "women's healthcare" must be protected, very well funded by the Left, while the right once again sits on their behinds and keeps their wallets closed and just blame it all on fraud. Even in states where a majority are supposedly "pro-choice", nowhere near a majority support zero restrictions on abortion, but nonetheless, they will vote overwhelmingly for it, believing they are voting to "protect" something.

[napscoordinator]

Unfortunately the baby killers are going to try to get it on as many state ballots as they can for 2024. So instead of economy being the main topic, it it will be abortion.

[mewzilla]

I think the response is to secure our elections.