Coalition of lawyers, doctors and activists hope to put the question of abortion directly to state voters after toppling of Roe v Wade
Today, reproductive health advocates in Ohio are handing in language to the state’s attorney general, looking toFollowing the US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade last summer – which had secured a federal right to abortion – an Ohio ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy immediately came into effect.
“Ohioans are perilously close to losing access to safe, legal, comprehensive reproductive medical care,” OPRR executive director Dr Lauren Beene said in a virtual press conference today, adding: “This commonsense amendment ensures that physicians will be able to provide the care our patients need and deserve free from government interference.”
Once the language has been submitted, the Ohio Ballot Board and attorney general each has ten days to review it. If approved, campaigners will need to collect in excess of 400,000 signatures in order to qualify to be on the ballot. If the ballot language is denied, campaigners – a coalition of lawyers, doctors and activists from organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights – will have to make changes and re-submit it.
The ballot could be the seventh such ballot to put the question of abortion directly to voters. In August 2022, voters in Kansas sent shock waves through the country when they rejected a ballot initiative brought by an anti-choice legislature, looking to confirm there was no right to abortion protected by the state’s constitution.
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