{"id":286636,"date":"2023-03-06T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=286636"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:52:41","slug":"ohio-ag-amendment-abortion-state-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-ag-amendment-abortion-state-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio AG approves language of amendment aimed at making abortion a state right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has approved the language of a constitutional amendment<\/a> aimed at making abortion a right in the state constitution.<\/p>\n

The amendment will now head to the Ohio Ballot Board, which has 10 days to certify the language.\u00a0It had been filed by abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice Ohio, the Abortion Fund of Ohio, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Yost called the language of the amendment “fair and truthful.”<\/p>\n

However, it is not “fair” or “truthful” to claim that there is a “right” to an induced abortion \u2014 which is the direct and intentional killing of a living human being before birth. No one has the “right” to kill<\/a> another innocent, vulnerable human.<\/p>\n

The amendment states:<\/p>\n

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  1. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. The State shall not directly or indirectly burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either an individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or a person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Walgreens<\/a><\/p>\n

    It says that preborn children may be protected from abortion after fetal viability \u2014 though this an arbitrary and nebulous marker in pregnancy, as the abortion industry has admitted it picks and chooses “viability” on a case-by-case basis and not by gestational age. There is no supposed line in the sand of when a human being is deemed to be a human being worthy of protection from the law.<\/p>\n

    If passed, the amendment will allow abortion in Ohio for any reason at any time<\/em><\/strong> during pregnancy \u2014 through all nine months.<\/p>\n

    It will also allow sexual predators to bring their victims for abortions and then continue to abuse them after destroying the baby, as is what happened to a 14-year-old Ohio girl.<\/p>\n

    A report from Alliance Defending Freedom revealed<\/a> that a Planned Parenthood facility in Ohio allowed soccer coach John Haller, who had impregnated a 14-year-old child, to sign off on her abortion without her parents’ knowledge. He\u00a0convinced the teen to have an abortion so that they could stay together.<\/p>\n

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