Ohio at the Crossroads: Voters to Decide Fate of Pro-Life Laws

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : It would also likely require state funding of contraception.
45% : Besides enshrining abortion-on-demand, it would expand 'reproductive choices' to practically anything anybody wanted, paid for by Ohio taxpayers."
44% : Under pro-life Governor Mike DeWine, Ohio enacted a "Heartbeat Bill" in 2022, restricting abortion once a fetal heartbeat was detected.
43% : The amendment would enshrine the "right to make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions," including in the areas of "abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy."
41% : Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Christian Jenkins issued an injunction against the law, claiming the Ohio Constitution contained a right to abortion (which he discovered after the federal right went away in Dobbs).
40% : Pro-abortion forces in Ohio are gearing up to try to force a referendum vote this November to legalize abortion-on-demand but are facing opposition.
39% : Informed consent using ultrasound, 24-hour waiting periods, parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion, and prohibitions on taxpayer funding for abortion would likewise be thrown out under the amendment.
39% : "Almost two generations have been taught abortion is nothing more than a root canal or a mammogram."
39% : Ohioans know abortion is not healthcare.
35% : Ohioans know that a child loses their life in abortion.
32% : "Ohio's abortion cartel knows that 'pre-Dobbs status' is a code word for pretending that Roe v. Wade permitted some state restrictions on abortion when we know it allowed abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy.

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