{"id":2087623,"date":"2023-11-02T06:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/issue-1-permanently-writes-planned-parenthoods-business-model-into-ohios-constitution\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:00:46","slug":"issue-1-permanently-writes-planned-parenthoods-business-model-into-ohios-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/issue-1-permanently-writes-planned-parenthoods-business-model-into-ohios-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio&#8217;s Constitution permanently enshrines Planned Parenthood&#8217;s business model."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fissue-1-permanently-writes-planned-parenthoods-business-model-into-ohios-constitution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2087623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Voters \u2064in Ohio Prepare for Historic Election<\/h2>\n<p>Voters across Ohio are \u2063gearing up to vote in\u2063 one of the most consequential elections in\u200c their state\u2019s history. On the ballot Nov. 7 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/globalassets\/ballotboard\/2023\/certified-language-9-21-ballot-board.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Issue 1<\/a>, a measure crafted and funded by outside activists to amend the Ohio Constitution to \u200cinclude an effectively unlimited \u201cright\u201d to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, Issue 1 won\u2019t just give the \u2063abortion industry a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/23\/abortion-activists-try-to-fool-ohioans-into-constitutional-amendment-threatening-unborn-lives-and-parental-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free pass to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-doctors-organization-publicly-embraces-dismembering-babies-until-birth\/\" title=\"Major Doctors\u2019 Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth\">end unborn lives<\/a> and trample on parents\u2019 rights<\/a>, as local pro-life and\u200c parental rights groups\u2063 have \u200cnoted. The constitutional amendment will fundamentally and permanently change the way the state operates forever.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is \u200cnot a\u2063 vote against Ohio\u2019s current laws on abortion,\u201d Megan M. Wold, former deputy \u2062solicitor general in the Ohio attorney \u2063general\u2019s office, said on a press call on Tuesday. \u201cSome voters may not like some aspects of those laws. But this \u200dis a vote for a new legal regime that would remove from voters the ability to enact common-sense abortion laws in the future, including the very same kinds of abortion laws that exist in all of Western Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Issue\u2064 1: More Than Meets the Eye<\/h3>\n<p>The Ohio Capital Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2023\/10\/19\/rejecting-issue-1-would-bring-back-ohios-6-week-abortion-ban-with-no-exceptions-for-rape-or-incest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published several articles<\/a> over the last few weeks claiming voters who check \u201cyes\u201d on the\u2064 amendment are simply reaffirming the state\u2019s status quo 22-week abortion law by rejecting a <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2023\/10\/19\/what-is-ohio-issue-1-we-explain-the-proposed-abortion-rights-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccontroversial\u201d<\/a> six-week \u200bban <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2023\/10\/19\/rejecting-issue-1-would-bring-back-ohios-6-week-abortion-ban-with-no-exceptions-for-rape-or-incest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cwith no \u2064exceptions for rape or incest\u201d<\/a> \u200b from taking \u200beffect. \u2062But that characterization of Issue 1 couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIssue 1 is more than just stating a right to obtain an abortion like <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> held, it\u2019s actually creating the entire legal regime that would \u200dgovern abortion in Ohio,\u201d Wold said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If passed, the Issue 1 constitutional amendment and its sweeping\u2063 provisions would immediately supplant any of Ohio\u2019s laws, including the state\u2019s current 22-week abortion limit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIssue 1 is not a \u200cresurrection \u2062of the \u2064status quo.\u2062 Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/issue-1-permanently-writes-planned-parenthoods-business-model-into-ohios-constitution\/\" title=\"Ohio's Constitution permanently enshrines Planned Parenthood's business model.\">constitutional language supersedes regular statutes<\/a>, Issue 1 would upend long-standing Ohio laws governing the abortion process, including laws governing late-term or particularly unethical abortion practices, and laws governing parental notification,\u201d May Davis Mailman, the vice president for legal, strategy, and communications of Restoring Integrity and Trust \u2062in Elections and a senior fellow at the Independent Women\u2019s Law Center,\u200d said on the same press call.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2064 activists <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/05\/leftist-push-to-disenfranchise-parents-in-ohio-riddled-with-deception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who penned the\u2062 ballot measure<\/a> designed it\u2063 to ensure abortion in Ohio can never\u200b be truly restricted, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/26\/poll-less-than-1-4-of-ohioans-support-the-unlimited-abortion-outlined-in-issue-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohioans overwhelmingly reject\u2063 unlimited abortion through birth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To achieve their goals, they littered \u200bthe proposal with \u2062undefined terms such as \u201cindividual\u201d and \u201creproductive decisions,\u201d which \u2064groups such as American Policy Roundtable <a href=\"https:\/\/eadn-wc04-10933288.nxedge.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Ohio-AbortionAmendment-Language-MarkedUp-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">say can be easily expanded<\/a> to include more\u200c than just adult \u2062women or abortion. If passed, the\u200c ballot\u2062 amendment will be exploited to \u200cjustify a multitude\u2064 of decisions for men, \u200dwomen, and children alike.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe state may not interfere with that broadly defined right unless it can meet an impossibly high burden of least restrictive means in order to further that individual\u2019s health,\u201d Mailman explained. \u201cThat is a far different and far higher burden\u2062 than the pre-<em>Dobbs<\/em> legal regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em>, states were permitted to issue restrictions on abortions beyond viability, bans \u2064on taxpayer-funded\u2064 abortions, and \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-democrats-vote-to-repeal-states-last-anti-abortion-law-parental-notification-for-minors\/\" title=\"Illinois Democrats Vote to Repeal State\u2019s Last Anti-Abortion Law \u2013 Parental Notification for Minors\">parental notification laws<\/a>. If Ohioans pass Issue 1, they will be welcoming a new era of lawmaking in Ohio that effectively hampers them and their elected representatives from \u200dreigning in abuses on a \u2062broad\u2063 range of issues including contraception,\u200b assisted reproductive technology, abortion, the radical transing of children, and any of the other \u201crights\u201d that might fall under the ambiguous terms included in the amendment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf it is enacted, Issue 1 effectively cannot be changed. Ohio has never \u2064repealed a constitutional provision that was enacted by initiative, \u200dand it\u2019s unlikely to do so. The process is very burdensome,\u201d Wold emphasized. \u201cIt is \u2064highly likely that this law\u2062 will become the permanent law on abortion for the entire state. And in that way, Issue 1 is actually taking the abortion issue \u200dout of\u2062 the hands of Ohioans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, the power will be handed to Planned Parenthood and the other abortion activists who helped write the amendment to gain constitutional protection for \u200btheir profits.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are in essence, writing their business model into the state constitution. This gives them \u200ba\u200b level of legal privilege far beyond\u200d what other corporations have in Ohio,\u201d American Policy Roundtable <a href=\"https:\/\/aproundtable.org\/the-five-new-rights-of-ohio-issue-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How will passing Issue 1 impact Ohio&#8217;s current abortion laws and \u2062future\u2064 legislation?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Voters in Ohio are gearing\u200c up to participate in \u200cone of the most significant elections in the state&#8217;s history. On November 7th, Ohioans will have \u2064the opportunity to\u2063 vote on Issue 1, a measure that\u2064 aims \u2062to amend the Ohio Constitution and grant an \u200dunrestricted &#8220;right&#8221; to abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. This ballot measure, which has been crafted and funded\u2063 by outside\u200c activists, has the potential to bring about fundamental and permanent changes in \u200dthe way \u200cthe state operates.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, Issue 1 will not only give the abortion industry a free pass to end unborn \u2062lives and\u2064 infringe upon parents&#8217; \u200brights, but it will also have far-reaching implications for the state of Ohio. Megan\u2064 M. Wold, former deputy solicitor general in the Ohio attorney general&#8217;s office, emphasized that this vote is not \u200dagainst Ohio&#8217;s current\u2064 laws on abortion but rather a vote for a new legal regime\u200d that would strip voters of the ability to enact common-sense abortion laws in the future, even those similar to those in Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Ohio Capital Journal has published several articles claiming that a &#8220;yes&#8221; vote on \u200cthe amendment is merely \u2064a way\u2062 to reaffirm the \u2064state&#8217;s existing 22-week\u200d abortion law and reject\u200b a supposedly controversial six-week ban without exceptions for rape or incest. However, this characterization\u200c of \u2062Issue 1 is misleading and does not reflect the true nature of the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Wold explained that Issue 1 \u2064goes beyond establishing a \u200cright to obtain an abortion\u200b and instead creates an entire\u200c legal framework governing abortion in Ohio. If passed, the constitutional amendment would immediately\u200d replace\u200b any existing laws,\u200c including the state&#8217;s current 22-week abortion \u2063limit. This would have implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">late-term abortions<\/a>, unethical abortion practices, and parental notification laws, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of \u2063this \u200bballot measure designed it in \u200dsuch a way that \u2062it ensures abortion\u200c in Ohio \u2064can never be adequately restricted, despite overwhelming opposition from Ohioans. They included undefined terms\u200d like &#8220;individual&#8221; and &#8220;reproductive decisions,&#8221; which can be easily expanded \u200bto\u200c include more than just adult women or abortion. According to groups like the American Policy Roundtable, if Issue 1\u2062 is passed, it can be exploited to justify a multitude of actions beyond what is currently intended.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2064is crucial for\u200b voters in Ohio \u2062to\u200c be aware of the potential consequences of their vote on Issue 1. This\u2062 ballot measure \u200dhas the potential to significantly impact the state&#8217;s existing laws and undermine \u2062the democratic process \u200bby\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-says-she-is-ending-conservatorship-between-former-nfl-player-michael-oher-and-memphis-couple\/\" title=\"Judge ends conservatorship between Michael Oher and Memphis couple.\">removing decision-making power<\/a> from voters and placing it\u200c in the hands \u200dof outside activists. It is essential that voters carefully consider the implications of this measure before casting\u200d their votes on November 7th. The\u2062 future \u2064of\u2064 Ohio&#8217;s abortion laws and the autonomy of its citizens are at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 7, Ohio voters face a crucial election with Issue 1 on the ballot. This measure, backed by external activists, aims to amend the Ohio Constitution, granting an unrestricted &#8220;right&#8221; to abortion throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. 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