{"id":287939,"date":"2023-03-28T06:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287939"},"modified":"2023-03-24T22:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T03:47:02","slug":"pro-life-groups-ohio-constitutional-amendment-parental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-groups-ohio-constitutional-amendment-parental\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life groups warn Ohio constitutional amendment will strip away parental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As abortion advocates work to secure an amendment that would enshrine a “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution, the state’s pro-life groups want voters to know that should the amendment succeed, it would not only make abortion a constitutional right but\u00a0also eradicate the state’s parental consent laws for abortion.<\/p>\n

Pro-life groups say that activists are framing the constitutional amendment as a way to affirm abortion rights and repeal the state’s heartbeat law. But in affirming abortion rights, the amendment will have far-reaching, damaging consequences, including those that strip parents of their rights.<\/p>\n

Authors Carrie Campbell Severino and Frank J. Scaturro touch on these wide-ranging consequences in a recent op-ed for\u00a0National Review<\/a>. “The proposed amendment would outlaw virtually any restrictions on abortion and all other procedures, including sex-change surgeries, that touch on reproduction, for both adults and minors. It would cancel out not only parental-consent laws but also mere parental notification for minors\u2019 abortions or sex-change surgeries; strike down health protections for people of all ages who undergo these procedures, including requirements that a qualified physician perform them; and erase any meaningful limits on late-term abortions,” they write.<\/p>\n

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These sentiments are echoed by the organization Protect Women Ohio. “Moms and dads will be cut out of the most important and life-altering decisions of their child\u2019s life, if this passes,” warned<\/a> Kelly Smith, a board member of the group. “This extreme amendment eliminates any current or future protections for minors requiring parents be notified and consent before their child undergoes a procedure like an abortion or sex change surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protect Women Ohio has launched a $5 million ad campaign to warn voters of the real ramifications of the amendment.<\/p>\n

“Ohioans must vote \u2018no\u2019 on this dangerous proposal,” Smith said. \u201cThe ACLU and the abortion industry have a long history of working to abolish parental rights and they are now bringing this anti-parent campaign to our state, hoping to enshrine their hostile political agenda in our state constitution.”<\/p>\n