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Ohio Republicans Say It's Their 'God Given Right' to Restrict Abortion Access

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  • Sooo then it's not something enforceable by law if that's the case since church and state are supposed to be separated lol jk this is insane people we are talking about.

  • This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.”

    The strategy Republicans are now proposing would essentially strip Ohio’s courts of the authority to repeal existing abortion restrictions before the new amendment goes into effect on December 7.

    “No amendment can overturn the God-given rights with which we were born,” state Rep. Beth Lear (R-Galena) added in the Republican’s statement.

    Another representative, Jennifer Gross (R-West Chester), claimed the referendum had only passed due to “foreign election interference.”

    Rep. Bill Dean (R-Xenia) said the amendment “doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law,” and that its language is “dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”

    Gretchen Whitmer, told The Detroit News that “it shouldn’t be lost on people that these right-wing organizations and radical Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are cherry-picking courts to try to once again overturn a constitutionally guaranteed right because they can’t win with voters.”


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