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Ohio Abortion Activists Suing Ballot Officials for Adding ‘Unborn Child’ to Ballot Language for Issue 1
Catholic Vote ^ | August 30, 2023 | Madalaine Elhabbal

Posted on 09/07/2023 6:12:55 PM PDT by Morgana

CV NEWS FEED // Pro-abortion activists are suing Ohio ballot officials for adopting the term “unborn child” in the new official language for a ballot measure that could make abortion a constitutional right in November.

In a vote which occurred along party lines on Monday, the Ohio Ballot Board approved the official language for the ballot measure that proposes a constitutional amendment known as “Issue 1.”

According to the ballot’s new language, if Issue 1 passes, it would grant a pregnant woman’s physician “the authority to determine on a case-by-case basis, whether an unborn child is viable,” and subsequently, whether an abortion is necessary to protect the life of the mother.

The last paragraph, which poses the most clear threat to the challengers, says if the amendment passes it would “always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if, in the treating physician’s determination, the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health.”

Ohioans for Reproductive Rights filed the suit shortly after the new language was approved on Monday.The group wishes to remove the term in order to, as the suit says, “properly and lawfully [describe] the amendment.

The group argues in its suit for the removal of the term “unborn child” in the ballot language, claiming the language “aims improperly to mislead Ohioans and persuade them to oppose the amendment.”

CatholicVote’s Director of Government Affairs,Tom McClusky, responded to the suit, saying: “the truth of the matter is that science, as well as a majority society and major religions, recognize that a pregnant woman is carrying an unborn child. To say anything else would be false advertising.”

The group seeks to have the ballot board reconvene to adopt the full text of the amendment on the ballot—which does not use the term “unborn child,” but refers generally to “fetal viability.”

If the majority votes “Yes” on Issue 1, access to abortion will become a constitutional right for Ohioans after 30 days.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; ohio; prolife; unbornchild
It is an UNBORN CHILD
1 posted on 09/07/2023 6:12:55 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

We need to just grind these creatures into the dust. Seriously.


2 posted on 09/07/2023 6:15:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

So what the hell do the fags think an unborn child should be called.


3 posted on 09/07/2023 8:16:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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To: Morgana

Yet the pro abortion crowd at the same time refers to their pets not as property or things, but as their children and furbabies.


4 posted on 09/07/2023 11:45:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

people on this forum refer to pets as “furbabies” (ugh) so it’s not just pro aborts.


5 posted on 09/08/2023 2:57:05 AM PDT by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: Morgana

I thought they would sue, objecting to the term “woman”, which they can’t define.........


6 posted on 09/08/2023 3:49:49 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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