Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ® called a referendum on reproductive rights on the ballot Tuesday in his home state a “radical proposal,” just days before voters will take to the polls to weigh in on the issue.
“If you look at Issue 1 — it’s a radical proposal and whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, it just goes much, much too far,” DeWine said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face The Nation.” “It is a radical proposal and does not fit Ohio.”
The proposed constitutional amendment, called Issue 1, would establish abortion protections in the state’s constitution. The highly-anticipated vote comes after weeks of rallies from both supporting and opposing groups, political leaders and celebrities.
Yeah, that sounds like something a republican would say: Very small government and individual freedoms of him.
It seems like illegalizing abortions in the first place was the more radical proposal. You took a freedom away that people had had for decades and just yanked it away from them. If anything, this is bringing things back to the status quo.
Republicans have been CONSTANTLY lying about this amendment, including and ad by DeSwine and his wife.
They first claim in would invalidate parental consent laws because it gives rights to “individuals” and not strictly adults. But even under Roe, parental consent laws were routinely upheld. Also, there are plenty of other rights with no explicit age restriction (for example, the second amendment) where age restriction are allowed. It’s just not true.
They also claim it allows abortion on demand at any time during pregnancy. Yet it explicitly allows post-viablity restrictions except for the health of the mother. They try to argue health could mean mental or even financial health, even though such laws have never interpreted that way, and this one would be interpreted by a Republican majority state Supreme Court.
Some have even lied saying it allows child sex changes when it has NOTHING to do with trans issues.
You know what’s extreme? Trying to force a 10 year old girl to birth a rape baby. Holy shit Mike DeWine, wtf?
