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Threatens Parental Rights

By using “individual” instead of adult or woman, anyone under the age of 18 could have an abortion or make any other reproductive decision without their parents’ consent or notification.

Puts Women at Risk

Current Ohio laws* require abortion providers to explain procedure risks and ensure access to hospital transfer if needed. These health and safety standards could be seen as a “burden” and be eliminated, making it even less safe for women seeking an abortion.

Allows Abortion Through 9 Months of Pregnancy

In U.S. law,** “health” includes age or physical, emotional, or psychological well-being. This means a woman’s age or emotional health could be cited to justify aborting a full-term baby. An abortionproviding physician would decide when a baby could survive outside the womb, leaving no clear protections for preborn children.

Is Misleading

Referring to “miscarriage care” promotes a myth that a “right to abortion” is necessary to preserve care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. This is false. Catholic hospitals have always provided comprehensive miscarriage care and will continue to do so regardless of the outcome of this vote.

* Ohio Revised Code, Sections 2317.56 & 3702.303
** Based on Doe v. Bolton

Article I, Section 22

The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

1.

Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.

This Amendment

Threatens Parental Rights

By using “individual” instead of adult or woman, anyone under the age of 18 could have an abortion or make any other reproductive decision without their parents’ consent or notification.

This Amendment

Is Misleading

Referring to “miscarriage care” promotes a myth that a “right to abortion” is necessary to preserve care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. This is false. Catholic hospitals have always provided comprehensive miscarriage care and will continue to do so regardless of the outcome of this vote.

2.

The State shall not, directly or indirectly burden, penalize, interfere with, or discriminate against either an individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or a person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care.

This Amendment

Puts Women at Risk

Current Ohio laws* require abortion providers to explain procedure risks and ensure access to hospital transfer if needed. These health and safety standards could be seen as a “burden” and be eliminated, making it even less safe for women seeking an abortion.

3.

However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.

4.

As used in this Section, “Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case‑by‑case basis”, and “State” includes any governmental entity and political subdivision.

This Amendment

Allows Abortion Through 9 Months of Pregnancy

In U.S. law,** “health” includes age or physical, emotional, or psychological well-being. This means a woman’s age or emotional health could be cited to justify aborting a full-term baby. An abortionproviding physician would decide when a baby could survive outside the womb, leaving no clear protections for preborn children.

5.

This Section is self-executing.
* Ohio Revised Code, Sections 2317.56 & 3702.303
** Based on Doe v. Bolton

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