A couple of days ago, our very own Fuzzy Chimp published a post urging Ohio voters to vote no on Issue 1, which would enshrine abortion into the state's constitution, taking it out of the legislature's hands. You guessed it … Issue 1 passed, and now abortion is legal at any time for any reason. As Chimp wrote:
The proposed amendment uses open-ended and ambiguous language that could open the floodgates on abortion, at any time during a pregnancy, and for any reason, if a doctor is willing to agree the mother's health may be harmed - including mental health.
Current Ohio law does not allow mental health to be a determining factor to allow aborting a perfectly viable baby.
If a woman seeking an abortion can get a doctor to agree to abort based on mental health reasons, even if she and the baby are physically healthy, the new constitution would allow it. Don't believe for a second there aren't pro-choice doctors out there whose standard for viability and the mother's health will allow for abortion at almost any point.
There's also no wording about minors or parental consent.
I voted against it, knowing it was going to pass anyway.
I was afraid I'd encounter a bunch of tweets today gloating about the big pro-abortion win in Ohio, but I haven't seen many. What I have seen are arguments for and against Republicans standing firm on abortion. There's no compromise. Republicans are already voting for abortion to be legal up to 15 weeks. But remember back in August, after the GOP debate, when liberals took great offense to the assertion that Democrats supported abortion up until delivery? I think it was Jen Psaki who said she'd never talked to a Democrat who supported that … if not, then after how many weeks do Democrats think abortion should be illegal?
Just give me a number. Oh wait, you can't.
Here are some tweets I've collected today on the issue; see what you think:
No comprise on abortion means Democrat supermajorities and then you won’t even be in a position to make a compromise on abortion.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 8, 2023
Is Johnny trying to pitch Trump as a pro-Abortion candidate or am I misreading this? pic.twitter.com/VxgG3uNkHj
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) November 8, 2023
Completely stupid and naive to tell pro-lifers to compromise on abortion. The pro-abortion side isn’t interested in compromise. They’re for abortion on demand through all nine months without apology - nothing less. They will fight as adamantly against a 25 week ban as they will…
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) November 8, 2023
Completely stupid and naive to tell pro-lifers to compromise on abortion. The pro-abortion side isn’t interested in compromise. They’re for abortion on demand through all nine months without apology - nothing less. They will fight as adamantly against a 25 week ban as they will against a 6 week ban. The pro-life side loses because we are less united, less aggressive and have less money, not because we need to be a little more ok with baby murder.
I really don't know. Are Americans just that much in love with abortion on demand, without restriction? Keep in mind this was the single issue on the ballot … this wasn't an election for a pro-life or pro-abortion candidate, just an election to amend the state constitution.
I really wish conservatives would push back more on liars like Psaki — they oppose all restrictions, don't they? That's the Democrat version of compromise on the issue. And they presented the issue in Ohio as a total ban on abortion, which wasn't the plan.
I'm disappointed and I'm sure Chimp is too. Republicans are already compromising and they're still losing.
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