Lawsuit: Ohio Ballot Board should have split abortion amendment into multiple issues
Abortion opponents say the Ohio Ballot Board should have divided the proposed abortion amendment into multiple ballot issues, according to a lawsui...
Abortion opponents say the Ohio Ballot Board should have divided the proposed abortion amendment into multiple ballot issues, according to a lawsuit filed at the Ohio Supreme Court Monday. The lawsuit, filed by former Cincinnati Right to Life executive director Meg DeBlase and member John Giroux, asks the Ohio Supreme Court to order the five-member Ohio Ballot Board to reconvene and split the proposed abortion amendment into multiple issues. The legal challenge argues that abortion is inherently different than decisions about continuing one's pregnancy, contraception, fertility treatment and miscarriage care, but the proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution lumps them together as "reproductive decisions.