Fri Feb 24, 2023 – 4:06 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life groups are speaking out against the danger of a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would enshrine a “right” to effectively unlimited abortion in 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.”
The amendment says abortion may still be prohibited “after fetal viability,” except when in the “professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.” Pro-lifers have long argued that such “or health” language effectively renders abortion prohibitions meaningless, by giving abortionists the discretion to rationalize any abortion as “necessary” to their customer’s “health.”
Fox News reports that state abortion activists have formally submitted the amendment to Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office to be placed on the
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