SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION PROTECTING LIFE

The Senate approved Senate Resolution 215 this week, expressing 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.

The resolution was co-sponsored by Senators Kristina Roegner and Michele Reynolds. 

"Human life is precious – at all stages – and must be protected," said Roegner. "Issue 1 is dangerous and irresponsible. It would undermine the current rights and protections of unborn children, women and parents." 

"The abortion industry has dark roots in hatred and racism, resulting in 20 million black children’s lives being taken since 1973. The black community accounts for just over 13% of Ohio’s population, yet according to the Ohio Department of Health, 48.4% of abortions in Ohio were performed on Black women," Reynolds said. "This issue has a profound impact on black children and families. We must remember protecting life is about equal protection under the law and the right to live."   Watch Senator Reynolds' moving floor speech.

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;
• 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 the Senate Resolution here.