Wilkin Votes to Protect Women and Babies

COLUMBUS—State Senator Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro) strongly supports Senate Resolution 215, which expresses the chamber’s opposition to Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this November that:

• removes the current laws protecting children, women, and families;
• and permanently enshrines in our state’s constitution abortion-on-demand through all nine months.

"Protecting life is paramount to me and my constituents," Wilkin said. "The resolution we approved today underscores just how dangerous and confusing this proposal really is. Issue 1 opens the door to policies that hurt our children and families instead of protecting them." 

Senate Resolution 215 outlines how this misleading proposal undermines the rights of the unborn, women, and families. The resolution details the extreme consequences of Issue 1 as written, including:

• allowing painful, late-term abortions, including those performed by dismemberment;
• eliminating basic health and safety protections for women;
• permitting abortion based on a child’s characteristics, such as Down Syndrome;
• allowing aborted children born alive to die;
• removing parental notification requirements for abortions;
• giving abortion providers the power to make the final call on all abortion procedures, standards, and timing;
• giving abortion doctors the power to unilaterally declare whether a woman’s health is endangered by her pregnancy, at any stage of that pregnancy;
• and, allowing abortion providers to pressure children into abortion without their parents’ involvement.

Issue 1 will be on the ballot this November. Read Senate Resolution 215 here.