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Issue 1 Passes, Enshrines Abortion Rights in Ohio
A look into why voters state after state are protecting the right to end preborn life in a post-Roe era.
11/9/23
John Stonestreet Timothy D Padgett
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Tuesday, Ohio became the most recent conservative state to defend a “right” to abortion. Only a year and a half ago, pro-lifers celebrated the legal significance of overturning Roe v. Wade. Since then, voters in state after state have protected the right to end innocent, preborn life.
This is a “you are here” moment. Many people, even if personally opposed to abortion, are not willing to restrict anyone else’s freedom. This is part of the legacy of Roe: Americans learned an absolute allegiance to absolute autonomy along with what Joe Rigney called the “cruelty of untethered empathy.”
We won a generational legal argument in overturning Roe, but the teaching effect of a fifty year law to etch a lie about what human life is and when it begins has reaped tragic and generational consequences to reverse.
Political strategies are so important: timing, wording on ballot initiatives, etc. But most of our work to defend life is upstream from the ballot box.
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