{"id":295094,"date":"2023-07-31T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295094"},"modified":"2023-07-30T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T03:41:23","slug":"pro-life-leaders-mobilization-abortion-targeting-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-leaders-mobilization-abortion-targeting-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life leaders call for mobilization against abortion industry’s targeting of Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ohio pro-life leaders are speaking out as their state is targeted heavily by the abortion industry \u2014 and they are calling for help to educate the public about an August 8th special election which could block a pro-abortion ballot initiative<\/a> set to come before Ohio voters in November.<\/p>\n

Mark Harrington, founder of Created Equal, told Live Action News that with Ohio being the birthplace of the pro-life Heartbeat Bill, turning the state pro-abortion would be the “crown jewel of the pro-abortion movement.” As such, he is calling for national help to get out the vote in favor of State Issue 1,<\/a> which seeks to increase the threshold by which the Constitution of Ohio may be amended from a simple majority (50% + 1) to 60%. If passed, the measure has the potential to block a pro-abortion ballot initiative which would determine if killing preborn children can be added as a constitutional \u201cright.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the polling, we are in the mid to low 50 percent, but we need to increase to at least a sixty percent threshold. So, I am a little skeptical. It\u2019s too easy to manipulate people with misleading pro-abortion ads because they control so much of the avenues of messaging,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n

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Ohio Issue 1 abortion measure (Washington Post)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ballot Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n

In July, Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights submitted almost 496,000 valid signatures to put their pro-abortion amendment before voters in November. According to Ohio Right to Life<\/a>, the group was “formed by the ACLU of Ohio, Abortion Fund of Ohio, New Voices for Reproductive Justice, Ohio Women\u2019s Alliance, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, Preterm-Cleveland [an abortion business responsible for women’s abortion<\/a>-related deaths<\/a>], Pro-Choice Ohio, and URGE. OFRF has hired an out-of-state General Counsel named Mission Control, Inc.”<\/p>\n

The measure<\/a> groups abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care together, stating, \u201c[e]very individual has a right to make and carry out one\u2019s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one\u2019s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.\u201d It adds that the \u201cState shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either an individual\u2019s 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 individuals\u2019 health\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words<\/a>, abortionists will be protected by the amendment.<\/p>\n

“Once Roe was overturned, we went directly to fighting a ballot initiative in Michigan which went down in defeat. We are now zero for six, and I thought we are in trouble,” Harrington told Live Action News.”We were late in the game and there are a lot of states like Michigan<\/a> that are in the middle ground; if they go to the ballot we will have our hands full. Ohio is a red state \u2014 I think we have a better shot here,” Harrington claimed.<\/p>\n

“A ‘yes’ vote on Issue 1 is the most important vote in our state’s history,” Janet (Folger) Porter, Founder and President of Faith2Action<\/a> told Live Action News. Her website<\/a> has encouraged pro-lifers to speak to their churches to spread the word about the August 8th election.<\/p>\n

Porter, who worked to pass Ohio’s Heartbeat Law, claimed that if pro-lifers do not vote ‘yes’ on August 8th, “Ohio could become New York with abortion until birth and no parental rights whatsoever.”<\/p>\n