VOTING HOURS:
Early voting:
Wed 11/1-Fri 11/3: 7:30AM.-7:30PM
Sat 11/ 4: 8AM-4PM
Sun 11/5: 1-5PM
Tuesday November 7: All polling places are open from 6:30AM-7:30PM
It’s time to get to your polling place and vote YES on Issue 1, protecting reproductive rights, on or prior to Tuesday November 7. Early voting takes place every day this week through Sunday.
Issue 1 has been polling steadily at 58%, evoking increasing desperation from those who oppose it. That includes a cadre of dishonest elected officials, using tax money to lie to the public. Those lies keep getting more lurid and detached from reality. Apparently, they don’t think that telling voters abortion should be banned outright is a winning issue. Some polling shows they’re having an impact — so get out and vote.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost already issued an “analysis” of Issue 1, a highly unusual move, especially since the “analysis” issuing from his taxpayer funded office, was just a partisan argument for why Issue 1 should fail. Apparently, he’s in competition with Ohio secretary of voter suppress …. I mean STATE … Frank LaRose, who altered the ballot language to reflect his partisan and religious views, to see who is more corrupt.
But wait! Spineless, mealy-mouth Governor Mike DeWine has entered the race! He’s lying that if Issue 1 fails, women will still have the same reproductive rights they had prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, concealing that he already signed a six-week ban into law with no exceptions or rape or incest. It’s on hold, waiting for Issue 1 to fail. And if it did, you can bet they’d be on the phone within minutes of the election being called, asking the state supreme court to put that six-week ban into effect again.
DeWine and his poor prop wife Fran, who’d probably rather be home baking her famous pies, are featured in a commercial spouting gooey, soft-spoken lies about eliminating parental consent and allowing abortion any time in pregnancy. No matter how comforting the tone, they’re still just lies.
DeWine is telling another lie too: that he’d be open to loosening abortion restrictions, possibly adding more exceptions. Don’t fall for that either. Already there are bills in the Ohio legislature, proposed by such representatives as Sandusky’s “Pastor” Gary Click, which would ban abortion entirely. And DeWine takes his marching orders from the extremists in the legislature. He’d almost certainly sign it, no questions asked.
There’s still more competition for the most corruption and partisan elected officials: the Republicans in the state senate who argue against Issue 1, again in lurid, overblown and false language— on the official, tax-funded website.
“ISSUE 1 WOULD BE THE MOST RADICAL PRO-ABORTION LAW, EVER … Abortion on demand at any time for any reason…no matter what,” state senator Kristina Roegner wrongly contends.
Roegner recites all the tired false claims coming from the anti-choice right: the dismemberment of “children,” “abortions even after the child is born alive,” “painful, late-term abortions, even at nine months.” She claims “the language is so vague it will allow the worst atrocities imaginable.
But the language is clear: after viability only in cases of medical emergencies. She claims that “health of the mother” is so vague it would open the door to these mass “atrocities,” when in reality it’s the anti-choice laws being passed that have language “so vague” doctors don’t know if they will be prosecuted for saving a woman’s life. And vanishingly few abortions currently occur after viability (about 22-24 weeks), the standard in Issue 1. With early-term abortions protected, that number will likely shrink to an even smaller handful of true medical emergencies.
Roegner’s entire screed makes Planned Parenthood, a longtime target or the woman-hating right, out to be some sort of baby-killing machine. (They love to talk about “the abortion industry.” There’s no such thing.) And it’s your tax dollars and mine that are paying for Roegner to spread this trash on an official state website, not her personal website.
Let’s show Roegner, DeWine, LaRose, Yost and their buddies at Ohio Right to Life that we see through them.Vote YES on Issue 1.
Get voting information here, including early voting hours and ID requirements.