{"id":295433,"date":"2023-07-28T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295433"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:12:38","slug":"ohio-abortion-amendment-ballot-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-abortion-amendment-ballot-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio abortion amendment will officially be on the ballot in November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Ohio amendment that will determine if abortion can be added as a constitutional “right” received enough signatures to officially be placed on the November ballot, according to the Ohio Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

Frank LaRose announced<\/a> this week that the proposed amendment had received enough valid signatures; the measure needed 413,487 signatures, or 10% of the last governor’s race vote, from 44 counties to qualify. It received 495,938 valid signatures from 55 counties.<\/p>\n

In a press release<\/a>, Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, the pro-abortion group pushing the amendment, announced that LaRose had certified the results, though he has publicly decried<\/a> the initiative. \u201cI hereby certify that petitioners submitted 495,938 total valid signatures on behalf of the proposed statewide initiative,\u201d he wrote in a letter sent to the pro-abortion group, according to CNN.<\/p>\n

The Ohio Ballot Board will now receive the amendment and draft the specific language that will appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Pro-life and parental rights groups have been fighting against the initiative, warning<\/a> that it is overly vague and removes parental consent for minors to undergo abortions. \u201cAs a parent, I could be cut out of these decisions that my child is making,” mother Libby McCartney said in an ad<\/a> for Protect Women Ohio (PWO). “[S]he could get an abortion or get a procedure done, and I don\u2019t even know about it. That\u2019s what\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though polling has shown that the majority of Ohioans currently support the amendment, the pro-life movement is continuing to fight against it. Amy Natoce, press secretary for PWO, told the Associated Press that they will \u201ccontinue to shine a light on the ACLU\u2019s disastrous agenda until it is defeated in November.\u201d<\/p>\n