Reproductive rights measure on Ohio’s fall ballot – update

The inflammatory language, targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio’s fall ballot is the type of messaging that is common in the closing weeks of a highly contested initiative campaign, warning of abortion on demand, if voters approve it. Only the messaging isn’t just coming from the anti-abortion groups that oppose the constitutional amendment. It’s being promoted on the official government website of the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate. Groups backing the proposed amendment say it’s an improper use of a taxpayer-supported website. A featured snippet, grabbed from the site that comes up during a Google search for Ohio Issue 1 says the measure ignores Ohio’s existing exceptions for life and health of the mother, in favor of establishing abortion on demand for all nine months. Legal and medical experts have called these narratives, false or misleading. The proposed amendment expressly allows Ohio to regulate abortions once a fetus is viable outside the womb, as long as there are exceptions for the life or health of the woman.