Ohio’s current legal standard for abortion is that it is legal up to 22 weeks, although that’s only because the 2019 “heartbeat” law that bans it as early as six weeks into pregnancy is on hold while a legal challenge to the law plays out in court.
, although that’s only because the 2019 “heartbeat” law that bans it as early as six weeks into pregnancy is on hold while a legal challenge to the law plays out in court. The legal status of abortion in Ohio has been in limbo ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June.
If the group successfully gets the summary language past the attorney general’s office, it then would be allowed to begin collecting the much greater number of signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot. “It just really shows that Ohioans are thirsty for this,” Azevedo said. “They want their rights back.”
It states that “Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion.” “The abortion lobby is attempting to impose on Ohioans late-term abortion, paid for by taxpayers,” Marbach said. “They believe they can rewrite our state Constitution to eliminate all protections for the unborn, including abortions after the point at which babies feel pain — endangering the health and wellbeing of both women and children.”
“It will be the law that applies to determine whether the six-week ban [the Heartbeat law] can stand,” said Jessie Hill, a Case Western Reserve University law professor advising the amendment campaign. “But the effect more broadly is when you pass a constitutional amendment, it doesn’t automatically erase everything and start over. But it would mean that laws that conflict with it would not and should not be enforced.
in November by a nearly 57% to 43% margin. Groups for and against the proposal spent almost $67 million, with $46.7 million coming from the “pro” side., including containing almost identical legal language describing the fetal viability cut-off after which the state could no longer permit abortions. But there’s a difference when defining viability.
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