Pro-life advocates warned that abortion activists would take advantage of Issue One in Ohio to dismantle protections for women and unborn babies, but their warnings were ignored.
Now, only four months after Ohioans approved the constitutional amendment stating that “every individual has a right” to “reproductive decisions” regardless of their age or their baby’s gestational age, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization’s Ohio chapter, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America have filed a lawsuit to challenge Ohio's informed consent laws.
The request to “unnecessarily requiring” women to wait to obtain an abortion often leads to a delayed or canceled appointment.
The lawsuit is happening at the same time that Republican Attorney General Dave Yost agreed stated that Ohio’s 2019 law banning abortion beyond the detection of a fetal heartbeat is no longer constitutional after the state’s November referendum.
The reason for the lawsuit is very clear. Now that Ohio has a green light to end unborn lives and disregard parents’ rights, the abortion industry has an easy way to focus on what remains of the state’s protections for women.
Ohio laws presently demand that women seeking an abortion be informed of the dangerous and sometimes fatal risks associated with the practice and be examined by a doctor who can estimate the unborn baby’s gestational age and find a fetal heartbeat. Additionally, there's a 24-hour waiting period designed to give mothers considering abortion a chance to reconsider and review the information about fetal development that the state requires abortion providers to provide to expecting mothers.
Abortion providers who do not comply with these conditions could face scrutiny from the state medical board and/or criminal charges.
However, the plaintiffs claim that this “interference” by the state is now prohibited under Ohio’s most recent constitutional amendment.
“These laws are now in clear violation of the newly amended Ohio Constitution, which guarantees the explicit and fundamental right to abortion and prohibits the state from burdening, prohibiting, penalizing, and interfering with access to abortion, and discriminating against abortion patients and providers,” Jessie Hill, cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Ohio, stated..
Pro-life groups warned that the national abortion activist groups leading the Issue One ballot initiative would not stop their efforts at effectively passing one of the most sweeping, terrifying abortion amendments in the nation. However, their warning was mocked and ignored by the corporate media, which falsely but deliberately accused them of spreading “misinformation.”
The Ohio Capital Journal published several articles right before the November election claiming voters who check “yes” on the amendment were simply reaffirming the state’s status quo 22-week abortion law by rejecting a “controversial” six-week ban “with no exceptions for rape or incest” from taking effect.
In fact, the change to the state constitution allowed abortion activists to legally protest any effort to control abuses in abortion, birth control, assisted reproductive technology, the radical transformation of children, and other “rights” covered by the unclear amendment.
When it comes to promoting their abortion-for-all activism, Democrats’ falsehoods and dishonesties are plentiful. They don’t just depend on unclear language and undefined terms in confusing ballot measures to achieve their abortion at any time for any reason agenda. With the support of their allies in the corrupt corporate media, leftists eager to codify abortion in state constitutions disregard voters’ strong opposition to making that deadly practice unrestricted to continue dismantling protections.
Pro-life laws and limitations save lives. However, several states, including Florida, are exposing themselves to the same misleading ballot measures that were successful in Ohio and opened the door for abortion organizations to challenge every safeguard.
“Residents of Florida and other states where abortion may be on the ballot should pay attention to the unfortunate realities unfolding in Ohio where out-of-state interests are using Issue 1 to keep women in the dark and further the profit motives of Big Abortion,” Sue Liebel, midwestern regional director for SBA Pro-Life America, said in a statement. “Every health and safety protection in existence will be targeted because even the advocates for abortion admit that this lawsuit is just the first step. This is the plan for every abortion amendment and we must resist to protect women and girls.”
