A couple of days ago, our very own Fuzzy Chimp published a post urging Ohio voters to vote no on Issue 1, which would enshrine abortion into the state’s constitution, taking it out of the legislature’s hands. You guessed it … Issue 1 passed, and now abortion is legal at any time for any reason. As Chimp wrote:
The proposed amendment uses open-ended and ambiguous language that could open the floodgates on abortion, at any time during a pregnancy, and for any reason, if a doctor is willing to agree the mother’s health may be harmed – including mental health.
Current Ohio law does not allow mental health to be a determining factor to allow aborting a perfectly viable baby.
If a woman seeking an abortion can get a doctor to agree to abort based on mental health reasons, even if she and the baby are physically healthy, the new constitution would allow it. Don’t believe for a second there aren’t pro-choice doctors out there whose standard for viability and the mother’s health will allow for abortion at almost any point.
There’s also no wording about minors or parental consent.
I voted against it, knowing it was going to pass anyway.
I was afraid I’d encounter a bunch of tweets today…
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