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Leading pro-life groups are responding to yesterday’s vote in Ohio, where voters approved issue 1, which creates a so-called right to kill babies in abortions in the state constitution. Pro-Life advocates told LifeNews they would keep fighting to protect babies from abortion and work hard to change hearts and minds in the pro-life direction. Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, told LifeNews that the pro-life movement has to work overtime to combat the massive disinformation campaign from liberals and the media. Misinformation campaigns funded by Big Abortion and its sympathizers pushed a “women will die without Issue 1”...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Voters in Ohio have approved an initiative to become the 24th state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana, the Associated Press has projected. Issue 2 passed on Tuesday’s ballot to allow adult-use sale, purchase and possession of cannabis for Ohioans who are 21 and older. The measure, effective 30 days after the election, permits adults to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana, up to 15 grams of marijuana concentrate and grow up to six plants at home. Those in Ohio who purchase cannabis will pay a 10% excise tax, the same rate as Michigan...

Ohioans voted on Tuesday to adopt abortion and reproductive health rights into their state constitution, with a majority voting yes on Issue 1.

CNN has released the results of exit polling in today’s vote on issue 1 and the polling data looks considerably skewed from national polling over the course of the last few years. According to the CNN data, the electorate today supported abortion in what has been turning into more of a red state over the years – even though national polling data shows more Americans are pro-life than pro-abortion. The Ohio electorate turning out for the vote largely favors legal abortion – roughly 3 in 10 say the procedure should be legal in all cases and about a third that...

Polls just closed, first results coming in. Yes is presently winning on both initiatives.

On November 7, Ohio will vote on Issue 1, which would enshrine abortion as a “right” within the state constitution. An effort to increase the margin needed to amend the Ohio constitution to a supermajority of 60% of voters – which was, confusingly, also titled “Issue 1” and which would have made the pro-abortion amendment being voted on this November more difficult to pass – failed at the ballot box in August. Consequently, the proposed amendment can be enacted by a simple majority of the vote. Issue 1, if approved, would “establish a state constitutional right to ‘make and carry...

The countdown is now at five days. Five days until Ohioans will vote on “Issue 1,” a sweeping pro-abortion initiative that Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights are said to already have raised almost $40 million since February. As NRL News Today has done for weeks and weeks, today we are posting original copy and reposting some of the best criticisms of “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety.” Along with their cohorts in the legacy media, the pro-abortion coalition behind Issue 1 denies the lessons of Roe and Doe, now thankfully in the trash bin of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio Right to Life has released the story of Nate and Lisa Herr, an Ohio couple who chose life for their son, Danny, despite his fatal prenatal diagnosis. November 7th is just 4 days away, and Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are working overtime to pass Issue 1, which would legalize painful abortion up to the very moment of birth here in Ohio. Issue 1, if it passes, will also eliminate a parent’s right to know if their underage child is considering an abortion or even sex change operation. Even though doctors said it was unlikely Daniel would survive...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued his final comments of the campaign season in an interview yesterday, where he encouraged Ohio voters to reject Issue 1. DeWine asked them to vote No on issue 1 because abortions up to birth is too radical. DeWine told “Fox News Sunday” yesterday that Issue 1 is a “radical proposal” because it not only has abortions up to birth but destroys parental rights on both abortions and sexual developmentment. DeWine said, “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. It...

Ohio’s Issue 1 referendum is a contentious proposal that will undoubtedly impact the future of abortion policy within Ohio for the foreseeable future. So far, groups from within and outside the state have dumped more than $40 million into debating the so-called abortion rights amendment. However, some major policies outside the realm of the abortion debate will be impacted if voters write the language of the Issue 1 referendum into the Ohio State Constitution. Highly credentialed legal scholars have argued that Issue 1 will likely impact state policy on transgender medical procedures – including for minors whose sexual body parts...

On Nov. 7, Ohio voters will go to the polls to vote on Issue 1, an amendment to the state’s constitution that would enshrine the right to abortion until about 24 weeks of pregnancy, when a baby is viable outside its mother’s womb. Currently, women in the Buckeye State can get an abortion until 21 weeks of pregnancy. The amendment’s wording—“Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions”—has also raised concerns about sex-change surgeries for minors. Critics of the amendment say the ambiguous language may create a constitutional right for children to undergo procedures...

Next week, Issue 1 is on the ballot in Ohio. This proposed constitutional amendment would place legal abortion in Ohio’s state constitution. One of the key arguments made by pro-lifers in opposition to Issue 1 is that it would jeopardize many popular pro-life protections currently in place and specifically Ohio’s pro-life parental-involvement law. Indeed, if voters approve Issue 1, pro-lifers argue, judges could strike down Ohio’s parental-consent law and minor girls would be able to obtain abortions without parental permission. Ohio media outlets that have covered Issue 1 have made a concerted effort to downplay these concerns raised by pro-lifers....

As voters in Ohio prepare to vote on Issue 1, a ballot measure that would enshrine the “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution, new campaign finance filings are revealing that pro-abortion groups in favor of the amendment have both outearned and outspent their pro-life opponents by a large margin, with the largest donations coming from groups outside Ohio. The reporting shows that Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the group behind the ballot measure, raised more than $39.2 million this year through mid-October and spent $26.2 million. More than $28.7 million of the money received came from cash donations since...

Today, Live Action unveiled a cutting-edge political advertisement campaign to encourage the people of Ohio to vote against Issue 1 on November 7th. Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, released the following statement: “Ohio voters will soon make a decision of whether to add expansive language to their state constitution that will target preborn children for death and leave women in dangerous and vulnerable situations to be pressured and coerced into abortions. If passed, Issue 1 in Ohio will open the floodgates to abortion up until the moment of birth, and strip the rights of parents to know...

On Wednesday, October 25th, Womens Med Dayton, Dayton’s remaining abortion facility, had another ambulance call to 911. The patient was a 33-year old female experiencing bleeding from a “complicated procedure.” This facility performs approximately 61 abortions every week in Montgomery County, according the 2022 annual Ohio Abortion Report. You can hear the 911 call here. This facility has a long history of 911 calls for “transportation to Miami Valley Hospital.” The facility was cited in 2015 for providing services without proper consent. This call is another example of lack of best practices by this facility. In early October, the Ohio...

As radical abortion activists promote Issue 1, which would allow abortions up to birth, they have also been targeting churches that are opposing it. Catholic schools, churches and cemeteries across the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, for example, have posted in recent weeks that they have been victims of vandalism and attacks. Pro-abortion extremists have stolen, defaced or damages No on Issue 1 signs at pro-life business that are displaying them. And pro-life residents have experienced the same sorta of vandalism of their lawn signs on private residences. Here’s more on what the churches have been facing: Incarnation Catholic Church in Centerville...

A televised debate on Ohio’s Issue 1 about creating a constitutional “right” to abortion-on-demand until birth gave pro-life advocates ample opportunity to dispel misinformation about the controversial measure, as an abortion activist misled viewers more than a dozen times in less than an hour. The debate, recorded on October 11 but airing this week at various times, was hosted by the Ohio Debate Commission in collaboration with Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Spectrum News. The exchange allowed official representatives from both sides of the issue to engage in a moderated, respectful exchange of views. But the abortion advocate did not...

A crime scene photo exhibition of evidence from the trial of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell – “America’s Biggest Serial Killer” – opened in Columbus, Ohio, October 20 and will remain until Election Day, when the state’s voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would radically expand abortion rights and restrict the rights of parents. “The Ohio media basically refused to cover it,” exhibit producer Phelim McAleer told CatholicVote Monday: It’s really funny. This is a breaking news story in their district. The ads are on TV and this is a photographic exhibition on a national news story relevant to...

A constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion until birth is being supported by a coalition of abortionists, transgender activists, and left-wing radicals who believe in transgender surgeries for minors, legalizing prostitution, abolishing police and prisons, erasing the U.S. border, and returning Mount Rushmore to tribal activists who see the monument as “an international symbol of white supremacy.” One of its key leaders boasts of “working on destigmatizing and uplifting sex work.” Ohio’s Issue 1, which is on the ballot this November, states: “Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited...

“Catholics for Choice”, an anti-Catholic and pro-abortion organization funded by elite non-Catholics including Warren Buffet, has installed 30 billboards promoting Issue 1 to Catholics in Ohio ahead of the November 7 vote on the pro-abortion amendment. Over 30 billboards went up around the Buckeye state reading “Pro-Choice Catholics: You Are Not Alone. Vote YES on Issue 1” and “63% of Catholics support legal abortion in all or most cases.” The signs appeared in major Ohio cities such as Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, Toledo, and Youngstown. If passed, Issue 1 would outlaw virtually all restrictions on abortion and all other...