This has been the story since I can remember. When you drill down into the details, people don’t want abortion to be legal for all nine months. Pro-lifers have celebrated that.
However, people keep voting for pro-abortion legislators and policies.
Why?
Because millions and millions of dollars are poured into states that are holding votes on this issue, demonizing pro-lifers as radical and dangerous. And its effective. Very effective.
The Federalist: Mere weeks before Ohio voters weigh in on a ballot proposal that could ensconce abortion activists’ radical demands for unlimited abortion in the state’s constitution, a new poll found that less than one-fourth of Ohio voters support abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Issue 1 is a deliberately vague ballot proposal that decrees “every individual has a right” to “reproductive decisions” regardless of age or trimester.
Advocates of the constitutional amendment, their petitioner pawns, and even the pollsters claim that the state’s Republican trifecta could still “prohibit abortion after fetal viability” if the proposal passes. The ballot measure’s generous language, however, nullifies any such limit so long as a doctor deems abortion necessary for a woman’s health, a standard that is left open to interpretation.
Baldwin Wallace University (BWU) Community Research Institute, which conducted a “pulse poll” of 850 registered Ohio voters in early October, claimed in its article highlighting the findings that “Ohio Voters Favor Passage Of Issue 1.”
At first glance, the BWU poll seems to suggest that there is widespread support for the extreme amendment. Around 58 percent of those surveyed said they support the ballot initiative.
On the other hand, approximately 33.5 percent of respondents said they plan to reject the proposal that would enact outside activist groups’ radical abortion and anti-parent agenda in the state. Another 8 percent were undecided.
Further down in the survey’s findings, however, researchers admit that only 24 percent of Ohio voters say abortion should be “Always Legally Permitted,” as Issue 1 seeks to do.
We’ve done a great job pushing against Roe but now that it’s done that battle is in the states and we have to start really fighting the fight. We have to donate. We need to ensure that people understand the radical nature of these pro-abortion amendments.
