Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is urging state residents to oppose the abortion ballot measure issue 1, saying it is so radical that it would allow aborting babies up to birth.
This is the second time the governor has spoken out publicly urging Ohio citizens to vote No on Issue 1.
“Fran and I have never done an ad before for a statewide issue or even a local issue but we both feel very strongly about this and I think whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life the constitutional amendment that we will be voting on in a couple of weeks just goes way, way too far,” DeWine told Fox News Digital at the governor’s mansion in Columbus, Ohio following an ad he ran with Ohio’s First Lady urging his constituents to vote “No” on Issue 1, a November constitutional amendment on abortion.
“It would allow abortion at any point in the pregnancy,” DeWine said. “It would negate Ohio’s law that we’ve had on the books for many, many years that prohibits partial birth abortion.”
“It also really strikes at parents rights and the relationship between a parent and in this case, a daughter,” DeWine said.
“We have a law that says that you have to have parental consent in regard to a minor getting an abortion that would be knocked out by this constitutional amendment as well. So it would put Ohio in a small category of the most permissive states in the union in regard to abortion. I just don’t think it fits Ohio. It’s not who we are. It’s not where we are.”
DeWine told Fox News Digital that the groups supporting a “Yes” vote on Issue 1 have run deceptive ads about what the amendment would do.
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“I think that the people who are doing these ads that are for issue one are misleading people,” DeWine said.
One misleading ad makes it appear that women will not be able to get medical care for miscarriages unless Issue 1 passes, which is entirely false because Ohio women get medical treatment for miscarriage every day currently without Issue 1.
“Medical assistance is out there. I mean, we have hospitals. They do what they do, doctors. So they’re wrapping this into things that are certainly already well taken care of by the medical community and our hospitals and our doctors. So just, you know, I think it’s a very misleading campaign that they’re running.“
The governor also explained that Issue 1 is so extreme that it would overturn parental consent on abortion and sex changes for minors.
Even Roe, and another abortion precedent-setting Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “allowed Ohio and other states to put some guardrails around abortion,” DeWine said. “Parental notification was one. Another law that we have in regard to someone with a disability, a child with a disability. You could not have an abortion specifically for the reason that that child was Down’s syndrome. You know, these are guardrails… would just go away because this is a constitutional amendment.”
As of now, more than $9.3 million has been invested in this campaign by radical abortion activists looking to passie Issue 1 to legalize abortions up to boirth statewide.
Issue 1 in Ohio is at the heart of this divisive debate. It proposes to allow abortions throughout pregnancy, including late-term abortions, and has been described as one of the most radical abortion laws in the country. This has ignited fervent opposition from pro-life advocates who argue that it disregards not only the rights of babies but puts women’s health and lives at risk with dangerous abortions. It also undermines parental rights on abortion and sexual and gender issues.
Pro-abortion extremists will soon have even more funds to flood the state with false TV ads.
Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who previously gave $250,000 to help defeat the summer proposal to make it harder to amend the constitution, has announced plans to contribute more to the pro-Issue 1 campaign in the coming days.
Should Issue 1 pass, Ohio will become the most radical abortion regime in the country, allowing for late-term abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including when science confirms an unborn child is capable of feeling pain. As a constitutional amendment, Issue 1 will trump state law, rendering the heartbeat law unenforceable.
By failing to explicitly define viability, and by giving abortionists the final word in determining when post-viability abortions can be performed on a case-by-case basis, Issue 1 leaves the door wide open for painful, late-term abortions. Issue 1 also contains a major loophole by allowing late-term abortions to protect the “health” of the mother. The United States Supreme Court has interpreted “health” to include not just a mother’s physical health, but also her mental, emotional, social and financial health, essentially permitting late-term abortion for any reason.
