Demonstrators of abortion rights in Ohio. (Photo of Graham Stokes to the Ohio Capital Journal. Re -photo only with the original article.)
Proponents of abortion rights take into the heart a total ban on abortion in Ohio. Paying attention to the celebration of the emancipation of Juneteenth and Czarna, they say that the utilize of the 14th correction to exert state control over the freedom of the individual and bodily autonomy is vile.
New account A pair of first -grade legislators from the Republican Chamber plans to introduce He would prohibit abortion and criminalize herwith in vitro fertilization and some types of contraception. The fund’s notification was first reported by WSS.
The bill is to be a direct challenge for state amendments regarding reproductive rights adopted by 57% of voters in Ohio in 2023.
Project supporters claim that the current constitutional amendment, which has written reproductive rights to the Ohio Constitution, “should be treated as invalid and invalid” because, as they say, it violates a clause with equal protection 14. Amendment “Refusing people pre -born rights to life.”
14. The amendment of the US constitution protects citizenship and appropriate trial, along with equal protection in accordance with the law.
“Referring to the 14th amendment, the prenatal act on equal protection of Ohio refers to a higher law; the US Constitution,” said in a statement the pain group, which is charged with the act.
Republican legislators in Ohio proposed complete abortion and prohibition IVF
Austin Biegel, a member of End Aborction Ohio, argued that yes, the law would be contrary to the majority of public opinion Ohioans, but he justified it, arguing that slavery was once supported and legal in the USA
Lexi Dotson-Dufault, executive director of the Ohio resource and recommendation fund, called the utilize of 14 amendments under the Act on the prohibition of abortion “Vile”.
“The act that prohibits abortion, citing the 14th amendment, improperly uses the protection of civil rights to justify the state’s control over our marginalized members of the community, especially black,” said Dotson-Dufault.
Report with National partnership for women and families In May last year it was found that state abortion “exacerbates the existing crisis of the Mother’s Mother’s mortality” and “threaten” 7 million black women throughout the country.
The study showed that mothers who do not have access to abortion care see a negative impact on their “economic security and the development of their existing children.”
“Canaries in the coal mine”
Dotson-Dufault and Ohio Women’s Alliance Deputy Director Jordyn Close believe that republican legislators are emboldened to take up anti-seal measures partly due to Missouri Supreme Court decision This restored the “de facto ban on abortion” in May, raising the order that blocked abortion restrictions.
The decision took place a few months after this state also approved the amendment to its constitution, which protected the reproductive rights.
Proponents of the rights to abortion do not see the legal position of the up-to-date law on the prohibition of abortion, but also perceive the rights of abortion as “Canary in the coal mine, in terms of … rights without people.”
“I don’t think that this bill has some legs you can afford, but I think it is very important to emphasize how disgusting it is that they will even try,” said Close. “Because if it is not this bill, it will be another introduced in the next session … It continues because they do not respect the ohioans.”
The constitutional change of Ohio, adopted in 2023, protects abortion and other types of reproductive health, such as treatment of fertility and the care of miscarriage, but over 30 other regulations are still in books in Ohio law.
These statutes would have to be withdrawn one by one, despite the fact that the state courts blocked some provisions, as well as a six -week ban on abortion, which was in the books before ROE against Wade was overthrown by the US Supreme Court.
But Republicans in state legislation are also trying to double such provisions.
State representatives of Mike Odioso and Josh Williams have already submitted Bill House 347The act, which is addressed to a conscious consent, requiring 24 hours before the abortion released not only “medically accurate information that a justified patient would consider the decision to decide whether to undergo an abortion to choose” – Who said abortion suppliers that they are already obliged – but also “alternatives to abortion, including adoption and parenting.”
HB 347 also puts a controversial and unverified language in the Act that “it may be possible to reverse the effects of an abortion” if the abortion of drugs occurs.
This This is not the first time Legislators from Ohio tried to include this language in state law.
The bill also requires that the doctor notify a pregnant person, except for rape or incest: “that the father of the unborn child is obliged to maintain maintenance, even if the father paid for the abortion to choose.”
According to the last endothelial analysis with The Guttmacher Institute13 states have total abortion of abortion on books, with another 28, which have bans between six weeks of pregnancy and “life”.
The constitutional change in Ohio puts abortion legality on profitability, in accordance with the unit determined by the doctor.
The Institute’s report also stated that the first half of 2025 caused the emergence of state anti -abortion legislators who “continued to push the envelope towards criminalization of pregnancy, restrictions on bodily autonomy and regulations that recognize fetal and embryonic personality”, and also reducing funds for sex education.
Action at the state level occurs when the Trump administration spent the first few months in office, withdrawing executive orders from the time of Biden in the case of abortion, including the protection of patients’ privacy and withdrawing the guidelines regarding access to emergency care under the federal act on medical treatment and work in emergency.
President Donald Trump also I pardon almost two dozen people Condemned under federal law, which prohibits threats, physical obstruction or strength at the entrances to the reproductive health clinics.
Tongue This is a federal law For which Trump has released, he also prohibits interference, injuries or intimidation for all religious freedom in the first amendment, including places of worship.
Efforts aimed at lowering federal funds have also affected reproductive health, with cuts X, which finances the subsidies of “family planning” and other reproductive health services for people with low income, including many services in Ohio.
Groups of abortion have already begun fighting the total ban on abortion demonstration on Wednesday This interrupted the anti -abortion meeting at the State House.
They want to spend more time not only by raising their voice in the legislator’s rooms, but also educating voters in 2026 by elections.
“Although we had a moment of victory in 2023, the fight is far from the end,” said Close. “We need to look at the next election (cycle) to protect our courts, because inevitably when we have these showdown in state legislation, the courts in which everything ends.”
Speaker spokesman House Oho, Matt Huffman, said that Huffman is focusing on the state operating budget by July 1 and had no other information about the introduction or schedule of the Act.
A request for a comment from the President of the Senate Rob McColley about whether he considers such an act that has no answer on Wednesday.
In November 2024, just before the start of the term as president of the Senate, McColley said The Capital Journal “Inaction in this matter, which speaks for itself”, referring to every effort to undermine the constitutional amendment. He also said since the problem passed a year earlier: “There was really not much discussion on this topic.”
“I think people realize that the Ohioans said, and so it is now,” McColley said at the time.
The Democratic Party in Ohio said that they are definitely against the measure of the ban on abortion, questioning the priorities of state republicans and claiming that the party with the supremacy of state is trying to “drag our state into the past.”
“Women from Ohio would die according to this cruel, catastrophic recipes,” said Kathleen Clyde, chairwoman of the Ohio Democratic Party.
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