Two Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban abortion in the state by granting legal protections to unborn babies from the moment of fertilization.
The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act, introduced Wednesday by State Reps. Levi Dean, R-Xenia, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, seeks to classify abortion as homicide and extend criminal and civil protections to babies before birth, effectively abolishing abortion in Ohio. The legislation, House Bill 370, also challenges the state’s 2023 constitutional amendment, which 57% of Ohio voters passed after a very deceptive multi-million dollar campaign that lied to voters.
End Abortion Ohio, a Christian nonprofit that collaborated with the bill’s sponsors, hailed the legislation as a step toward “the legal abolition of abortion.” The group argues that the 2023 amendment, known as Issue 1, violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection and is “null and void.” They called for an appeal to “the highest law; the law of God.”
The bill could also punish women for getting abortions – which pro-life groups have historically opposed and which would likely ensure the bill is not approved.
If passed, the bill would not only ban abortion but also end in vitro fertilization (IVF) as it grants personhood status from fertilization.
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Ohio voters approved Issue 1 in 2023 after a monumental abortion battle in the Buckeye State. With 57 percent of the vote counted, Ohio voted 56% to 44% for Issue 1, which will make killing babies in abortions a so-called “right” in the state constitution.
The pro-abortion side dominated fundraising – with reports towards the end of the election showing that they had 3-1 fundraising advantage over pro-life groups. The out of state dark money and millions from leftists like George Soros, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood allowed the pro-abortion side to dominate TV and online with blatantly false commercials that further angered liberal voters and drove them to the polls in higher numbers.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that since September 8, the pro-abortion “yes” side in the referendum had raised almost three times more money than the pro-life “no” side: $29 million compared to less than $10 million. Much of the money for the pro-abortion side — likely over $50 million by the time it’s said and done — came from out of state and even out of the country while major pro-life donations came from within Ohio.
AP indicated that “the largest donations” supporting the pro-abortion “yes” campaign came from outside of Ohio. This included “three gifts totaling $5.3 million from the progressive Sixteen Thirty Fund, based in Washington, D.C.”
The Sixteen Thirty Fund is largely bankrolled by Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire.
According to the AP, the organization behind the “yes” campaign
received $3.5 million from the New York-based Open Society Policy Center, a lobbying group associated with the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and $2 million from the American Civil Liberties Union, also based in New York. Billionaires Michael Bloomberg of New York and Abigail Wexner, the Ohio-based wife of retired Limited Brands founder Les Wexner, each gave $1 million.
Even though Americans are still nominally pro-life overall, radical abortion activists are more angry that Roe was overturned than pro-life voters are happy about the Dobbs decision overturning it. That results in more abortion advocates turning out to the polls to vote for abortion because the smaller poll of pro-abortion voters are more incentivized to vote than the slightly larger poll of pro-life voters.
To counter this, pro-life groups need to a) emphasize the great things Dobbs accomplished – from saving babies to helping women, b) engage in more work to identify and turn out voters in elections, c) do more to fundraise and find large donors who can help the prolife movement overcome the massive fundraising disparity so it can counter the avalanche of false ads.
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