Posted on 11/07/2023 6:44:26 PM PST by ViLaLuz
Ohioans voted on Tuesday to adopt abortion and reproductive health rights into their state constitution, with a majority voting yes on Issue 1.
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Pro-abortion rights groups initiated the ballot measure in response to the six-week abortion ban that was passed and signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in April 2019. At that time, the law was blocked by the courts due to federal protections of abortion in the first trimester under Roe v. Wade.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022, the six-week abortion ban has been under legal review by the state's courts.
Anti-abortion advocates campaigned ardently against the amendment's prohibition of state actions that "directly or indirectly [to] burden, penalize, or interfere with or discriminate against" a citizen's reproductive choices, saying this would nullify existing state laws regulating the controversial procedure.
"Issue One is not a resurrection of the status quo [under Roe v. Wade]," May Mailman, the vice president for legal, strategy and communications at RITE, told reporters ahead of Tuesday's vote.
"Because constitutional language supersedes regular statutes, Issue One would upend long-standing Ohio laws governing the abortion process, including laws governing late-term or particularly unethical abortion practices and laws governing parental notification," Mailman said.
Advocates of the amendment say that pro-abortion rights groups will not push against existing parental consent laws in Ohio, but Mailman said these laws could reasonably be interpreted as interference against children's rights if taken to court in the future.
DeWine has been an outspoken critic of the amendment in recent weeks, calling it too extreme for the Buckeye State.
"If you look at Issue 1, it's a radical proposal, and whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, it just goes much, much too far," DeWine said on CBS News's Face the Nation on Sunday.
In previous statements, DeWine has said that although the legislature can regulate abortion after the point of fetal viability, which is when the child can survive outside of the womb, the amendment allows a mother's physician to perform an abortion if carrying the pregnancy to completion would jeopardize her health.
"There is a wide exception written into this law, which talks about the health of the mother," DeWine said. "The Supreme Court, the United States has defined this extremely broadly — [it] can mean health, can mean something having to do with her income, it can have something to do with how many children she has, and again, it is the person performing the abortion in the clinic who’s going to make that determination, and there’s no review of [that]."
"Decisions around pregnancy, including abortion, birth control, and miscarriage care, are personal and private and should be left up to women and their families," the leading pro-abortion rights group in the state, Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, said. "This amendment is about who makes personal decisions for yourself and your family — you or the government."
While multiple state Supreme Courts have interpreted the privacy provisions in their respective constitutions to protect abortion rights, only three states, Vermont, California, and Michigan, have abortion rights enshrined explicitly in the text of their constitutions.
Ohioans voted on Tuesday to adopt murder into their state constitution.
Every swing state and then some will put this on their ballot for the general election.
Biden doesn’t have a clue about the power of God.
The wrath of God is upon America. Lord have mercy for your people.
We deserve all that is coming to us.
The United States of murder, corruption and perversion. A circus that won’t end well. I grieve for America.
Sadly that is true.
You mean they rigged another election again.
No, the ones who keep rigging elections deserve what’s coming to them.
Yea and Desanctimonius is going to carry a bunch of purple states how? They’ll eat him alive with the abortion question. Are you for a 6 week federal abortion ban, “Im for whatever can get through the congress”, cut ad, play on repeat for 2 months.
GOP is dead. The sooner we realize it and move on from it, the better.
It’s physically impossible for the democrats not to cheat when abortion is on the ballot.
Majority of country is now for abortion rights. A huge winning issue for liberals. Red waves will keep crashing if conservatives keep talking about abortions. It is the reality of modern world.
I hate liberals winning more elections and gain more control over my life. by exploiting abortion issues. If conservatives are smart, they should talk more about taxes, small business regulations, open borders, crime, foreign wars, national debt, gun rights, immigration, voter fraud and secure elections, SCOTUS, religious freedom etc. those are winning issues for conservatives.
Im not “for” the GOP at all. I want Trump to win. I couldn’t care less about the GOP. They are among the biggest obstacles to Trump winning.
This. They’ve totally shit the bed.
But Trump is still tied to the hip with the GOP.
Yup, worked for pot legalization, will work for this issue too.
The tide has officially turned as the newer generations indoctrinated into wokeism take over.
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