Issue 1 Passes, Enshrines Abortion Rights in Ohio

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW32668825 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="none">Tuesday, Ohio became the</span> <a href= "https://breakpoint.org/ohio-and-the-next-chapter-in-pro-life-advocacy/"> <span data-contrast="none">most recent conservative</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">state to defend a “right” to abortion. Only a year and a half ago, pro-lifers celebrated the legal significance of overturning</span> <em><span data-contrast= "none">Roe v. Wade</span></em><span data-contrast="none">. Since then, voters in state after state have protected the right to end innocent, preborn life.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">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</span> <em><span data-contrast="none">Roe:</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">Americans learned an absolute allegiance to absolute autonomy along with what Joe Rigney called the “cruelty of untethered empathy.” </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1722077359367393585"><span data-contrast="none"> Andrew Walker tweeted</span></a><span data-contrast= "none">, </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p>"We won a generational legal argument in overturning <em>Roe</em>, 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."</p> <p><span data-contrast="none">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. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233279":true,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740