Posted on 11/09/2022 9:29:47 AM PST by Morgana
Ohioans have greater hopes of protecting unborn babies from abortion after voters elected Republicans to all three open state Supreme Court seats on Tuesday.
NPR affiliate WOSU reports Republican Sharon Kennedy won the race for chief justice, beating Democrat Jennifer Brunner and paving the way for a 5-2 conservative majority on the court.
Republicans Pat Fischer and Pat DeWine also defeated Democrat candidates Terri Jamison and Marilyn Zayas for two open associate justice seats, according to unofficial election results.
“Ohio is a pro-life state, which is proven time and time again every election,” said Elizabeth Whitmarsh, director of communications for Ohio Right to Life. “In the face of the many allegations that ‘Ohio is pro-choice,’ Ohioans boldly proclaimed that we stand for life. Therefore, the radical abortion-on-demand platform has no place in the Buckeye state.”
One of the biggest cases headed to the Ohio Supreme Court is pro-abortion groups’ challenge to the state heartbeat law, which bans abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. A Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas judge blocked enforcement of the law in September.
The pro-life law has the potential to save tens of thousands of babies’ lives. From June to August while the law was in effect, abortions dropped 65 percent in Ohio, representing about 2,470 unborn babies’ lives, according to a new study, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported earlier this month.
The election results mean there will be a vacant spot on the court, one that Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to fill with a Republican. According to WOSU, Kennedy currently serves as an associate justice on the court, so her seat will be open when she takes on the chief justice role in January.
“It is morning again at the Ohio Supreme Court,” Kennedy told supporters in Columbus after learning of her victory, WOSU reports.
Pro-life Republicans also won a number of state races Tuesday, and J.D. Vance won the open U.S. Senate seat, defeating pro-abortion Democrat Tim Ryan.
According to Ohio Right to Life, pro-life candidates won every state-wide race and retained a solid majority in the Ohio General Assembly with more than 60 seats in the House and 30 in the Senate.
“Knowing that the pro-life movement won such decisive victories tonight should motivate us all to move swiftly to end abortion from conception by the end of this year. Abortion has no place here in Ohio, and it is time to put a stop to it,” Whitmarsh said.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, also celebrated the Ohio results as a victory for the future of unborn babies.
“The Heartbeat Law, which would save thousands of children from abortion, is currently being held hostage by the Ohio State Supreme Court. That could all change tonight!” she wrote on Twitter.
Polls consistently show a strong majority of Americans support legal protections for unborn babies, especially after the first trimester or once their heartbeat is detectable. A recent poll found Ohioans support the heartbeat law.
In 2020, there were 20,605 abortions reported in Ohio.
Currently, 13 states are enforcing pro-life laws that prohibit or strictly limit the killing of unborn babies in abortions, and others, including Ohio, are fighting in court to do the same.
And may infanticide be banned for good.
If this trend in Ohio continues, I predict a bit of a blue exodus. Nothing huge, but some of those lefties who can leave and aren’t too heavily rooted in Ohio might bail. I’m not so sure they’ll want to pick Florida either. lol
I guess they will just have to figure out a different way to kill the babies.
Just go to New York or California if they want infanticide.
That’s why American Airlines just started offering direct flights.
They should just do it on the plane and throw them out the window and land again.
They could also do abortions on a ship past the 3 mile limit like they did with gambling. Only problem though would be all the seagulls circling for a meal.
Or Michigan
You can see states choosing side in the spiritual realm. The States are no longer United.
Ohio has no mass mail in balloting, so their results are readily available within hours. It just shows by contrast how mass mail-ins screw up what is basically a simple orderly process.
Same situation in FL.
I look forward to analysis of mail-in v. non mail-in states
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