Abortion rights activists have until July 5 to collect 413,000 signatures from registered voters across the state to get an amendment proposal onto the November ballot. The proposal would go under Article I, and is calledThe proposed amendment would generally guarantee that patients could make their own reproductive decisions, including birth control, fertility treatment, continuing a pregnancy, or abortion and miscarriage care up until viability, which is around 22 to 24 weeks.
A campaign called Protect Women Ohio has organized to oppose the amendment. It is made up of anti-abortion advocates, such as Ohio Right to Life and the Center for Christian Virtue. produced for Protect Women Ohio to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision.The reproductive rights amendment proposal doesn’t explicitly address the rights of transgender minors. But Protect Women Ohio and anti-abortion activists have said the ballot language guaranteeing a right to make reproductive decisions is open-ended enough to be used in defending transgender rights.
“The proposed amendment would outlaw virtually any restrictions on abortion and all other procedures, including sex-change surgeries, that touch on reproduction, for both adults and minors,” the analysis says.
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