{"id":288894,"date":"2023-04-13T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288894"},"modified":"2023-04-12T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:44:16","slug":"pro-lifers-lawsuit-ohio-amendment-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-lifers-lawsuit-ohio-amendment-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit filed against Ohio amendment for ‘overbroad’ grouping of abortion, miscarriage treatment, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of Cincinnati Right to Life have filed a lawsuit<\/a> to prevent an Ohio constitutional amendment that would affirm a right to abortion in the state’s constitution from reaching voters in November.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Signal<\/a>,\u00a0Margaret DeBlase and John Giroux filed a lawsuit with the Ohio Supreme Court arguing that because the proposed amendment covers multiple issues, it should be broken up into multiple amendments. Should the lawsuit succeed, it would be a setback for abortion advocates, who are trying to secure enough signatures to place the amendment on a November ballot.<\/p>\n

Called\u00a0the Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety<\/a>, the proposed amendment is wide-ranging, saying “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.”<\/p>\n

Per the legal challenge<\/a>, abortion and the continuation of pregnancy are inherently different than fertility treatments, contraception, and miscarriage care, and should be treated as separate issues.<\/p>\n