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Pro-Abortion Ballot Initiative Garners Enough Signatures to Advance to Referendum in Ohio: Advocates

Critics worry the measure would strip parental rights and expand sex-change operation procedure protections

Pro-Abortion Ballot Initiative Garners Enough Signatures to Advance to Referendum in Ohio: Advocates
Pro-abortion protesters with Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights wear green as they protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on June 15, 2022. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times
Joseph Lord
Joseph Lord
7/7/2023|Updated: 7/7/2023
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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.

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