—DeWine claimed that, were he to support the bill, “Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government, knows better what is best for a child than the two people who know that child the best—the parents.”
By that reasoning, the state would have to stand idly by if parents were to blind a child or sever its limbs, if they declared that that was in its best interest. I’m not sure what ideological framework he is working in.
The guy would have more credibility if he wasn’t governor of a state with literally hundreds of pages of statutes and regulations governing the practice of medicine.