{"id":287530,"date":"2023-03-20T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287530"},"modified":"2023-03-19T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T03:15:45","slug":"proposed-ohio-amendment-make-abortion-constitutional-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/proposed-ohio-amendment-make-abortion-constitutional-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Ohio amendment would make abortion a constitutional right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An initiative to make abortion a constitutional right in Ohio has cleared<\/a> the Ohio Ballot Board and will begin gathering signatures.<\/p>\n

The proposal, called the Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety<\/a>, would go much further than just making abortion a constitutional right. It would also ban nearly all restrictions on abortion, both for adults and for minors, overturn parental consent and<\/em> notification laws, and make late-term abortion essentially unlimited.<\/p>\n

The broadly-worded and vague phrasing in the proposal specifically leaves open room for even more interpretation; \u201creproductive decisions” in the proposal are defined as including, but not limited to<\/em>, contraception, fertility treatment, continuing a pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion. The proposal does allow for abortions to be limited after fetal viability, but also said doctors can choose to override this restriction if it is necessary for the mother’s “health.”<\/p>\n

Before being sent to the Ohio Ballot Board, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost approved<\/a> the language of the amendment.<\/p>\n