At the City Club of Cleveland last week, proponents and opponents debated Issue 1, which goes before Ohio voters this November.
The proposal establishes a constitutional right for Ohioans toThe opponents continued to hammer on a series of questionable arguments. They warned darkly of parental rights evaporating and late term abortions becoming the norm. They ignored Ohio’s six-week abortion ban — on the books but tied up in courts — to argue Ohio’s current standard protects abortion through 22 weeks.
The phrase “late-term abortion” is not a medical term, and is rejected by the medical community as misleading. In reality, however, the abortions allowed under Issue 1 after fetal viability are the ones Rerko herself insisted are already allowed. The amendment explicitly allows restrictions after fetal viability so long as there are exceptions for the mother’s health.
While Rerko didn’t reiterate the campaign’s talking points about parental rights, she argued the amendment’s protection of fertility treatment could be applied to gender-affirming care. Rerko also claimed without evidence that providers are conducting abortions without reporting them.While Rerko didn’t argue Issue 1 will undermine Ohio’s parental consent statutes for abortion, campaign spokeswoman Mehek Cooke insisted the amendment “eviscerates” those provisions.
“Issue 1 is about reinstating the freedoms that Ohioans enjoyed for decades before Roe v. Wade was overturned,” he explained.
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