Pro-Abortion Ballot Initiative Garners Enough Signatures to Advance to Referendum in Ohio: Advocates
A pro-abortion measure to amend the Ohio Constitution has received enough signatures to advance to a referendum in the state, advocates of the measure say.
The measure would declare abortion a constitutional right in the state of Ohio until the point of fetal viability, at which a baby has a substantial chance of surviving independently outside the womb. That point is generally considered to fall around 23 or 24 weeks of gestation, but some babies can survive outside the womb as early as 22 weeks.
“Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on: contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion,” the proposed ballot measure says (pdf)….