Wed Mar 22, 2023 – 4:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A proposed amendment that would effectively establish unlimited abortions in Ohio could extend beyond abortion and into transitioning gender-confused minors without parental consent, according to a group of concerned parents preparing to spread the message across the Buckeye State.
Backed by the Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights (OPRR) advocacy arm Protect Choice Ohio (PCO), the proposed Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety Amendment posits a “right” to make “personal reproductive” decisions “including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion,” which the state “shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against.”
Fox News reported that the Ohio Ballot Board gave its approval to the amendment on March 13. The next step is for supporters to collect at least 413,000 signatures from Ohio voters in order to place it on the fall 2023 ballot. This week, a lawsuit was filed asking the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn the board’s approval, arguing that the amendment covers multiple issues when state law requires proposed amendments to only cover one issue apiece.
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