The Ohio branch of Protect Women has started a $5 million ad campaign on TV to fight against the law.
Some Ohio parents are against the amendment because they don’t want to give up the right to decide for their children if they can get medical procedures like abortions or change their gender.
A group called Preserve Women Ohio (PWO), which is “pro-woman and pro-parent” has started a statewide advertising campaign costing several million dollars to fight against a “radical amendment” to the Ohio Constitution.
If supporters of reproductive rights and Ohio medical professionals can get the amendment on the ballot for the November 2023 state election, Ohio voters will be able to have their say on the matter. On Monday, the Ohio Ballot Board permitted the initiative’s supporters to start collecting signatures.
Every citizen has the right to “make and act on [their] own reproductive decisions.” Some of the options for women who get pregnant against their will are miscarriage therapy, abortion, birth control, and in vitro fertilization.
“Republican lawmakers in Columbus and Washington are working around the clock to pass extreme legislation that would make abortion illegal,” Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Elizabeth Walters, who supports the amendment, said. She said that her group will do everything it can to get people in Ohio to support “commonsense abortion rights.” If most Ohioans agree that a question about “commonsense abortion rights” should be on the ballot, it will be on the ballot.
Carrie Severino and Frank Scaturo of the Judicial Crisis Network said that “the amendment would just get rid of most bans” on abortion and sex change surgery.
Media sites say that an editorial in the magazine National Review that came out on Monday busted the myth that the proposed amendment would put protections for abortion in the state constitution.
For people who want to see change, it’s important that all kinds of reproductive health care, like abortions and surgeries to change sexes, be easier to get (to both adults and children). People have surgery all the time to change their sexual orientation.
If this were true, there would be no need for preventive measures or medical help. Since it is not legal now, late-term abortions would also be made legal.
Molly Smith, a member of the PWO board, said “no” to the idea on Wednesday. Her main worry was that if the bill passed, “parents would be locked out of making the most important and life-changing decisions for their child.”
Without parental consent, it is currently illegal for minors to have abortions or change their genitalia. This would change if the “draconian legislation” that would get rid of parental consent requirements passed. There is a lot of talk about these kinds of projects right now.
Over the next four weeks, PWO plans to spend $5 million on TV and radio ads in the state to stop the amendment from becoming law.