Ohioans: Don’t Be Deceived about Issue One!

Michie · Nov 7, 2023

Ohioans vote Tuesday on Issue 1, a referendum question that would write abortion on demand through birth into the state constitution. Buckeyes: Don’t let pro-abortion advocates lie to you about the extremes of this amendment.

This amendment legalizes abortion through birth for any reason. No restriction on abortion prior to birth would be constitutional in Ohio.

Anybody who claims that is not true is lying. The amendment pays lip service to the notion of “viability” — i.e., the point at which a fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb, generally about 20 weeks (5 months).

But the amendment’s “restriction” is no restriction at all. Why? Three reasons.

The amendment itself carefully does not saywhen viability occurs.
It does say that determination is up to the person performing the abortion — i.e., somebody who has a vested interest in removing that restriction.
And the amendment says the restriction can be waived in the name of the mother’s “health” — but does not define “health.” That definition is not self-evident or common sense. We know from nearly fifty years of Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court stretched “health” to include emotional and psychological satisfaction. So if you’d be unhappy that you can’t have an abortion when you want it? Your “health” is endangered. That’s not fantasy. That’s not fiction. That’s almost half a century of precedents.

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