2024 Election Ohio GOP Senate candidates pitch federal abortion bans even after voters protected reproductive rights

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Feb. 23, 2024, 6:00 AM EST


FINDLAY, Ohio — Ohioans voted decisively last year to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution, but all three of the Republicans competing in a tough U.S. Senate primary here say they are open to overruling them and supporting federal restrictions.

State Sen. Matt Dolan and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose present themselves as better authorities on the matter, arguing that voters didn’t fully understand the 2023 ballot measure. Businessman Bernie Moreno favors a federal ban at 15 weeks — a timeline that Dolan also says he would back if “late-term abortions” become the “norm.”

And while Dolan and Moreno both say they support exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s life is in jeopardy, LaRose, who brags that his anti-abortion record “is not something I run away from,” is tougher to pin down. “I support doing things that we can do to reaffirm the sanctity of life,” LaRose told reporters Monday after a GOP debate at the University of Findlay. “And I look forward to that conversation in the U.S. Senate, but I’m not going to litigate here how many weeks, how many exceptions.”

Ohio is expected to host one of the most competitive and expensive Senate races in the country this fall, with Republicans aiming to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown — a staunch abortion-rights supporter — in a state that has become more conservative in recent years.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-gop-senate-candidates-federal-abortion-bans-rcna139950

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They still haven't gotten the message. This should bode well for Sherrod - keep reproductive rights in the forefront (and now add IVF to that too).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These republican fools yammer about "the sanctity of life."

WHAT ABOUT THE SANCTITY OF THE LIFE OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN?

They never seem to talk about that.

[Hope22]

2. They are sick people.

Talk about democracy, in Ohio we worked our asses off to get a change to the constitution passed with overwhelming support in favor of keeping abortion legal. After the election the State legislature immediately began to cheat the voters out of their rights. Here we have it again and again. And now watch them steal the election from Senator Brown. They will stop at nothing. It is exhausting, expensive and completely disgusting!

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Unbelievable!

They are also trying to override the legal marijuana law we passed in November. Meanwhile they're stalling, saying no shops will open for at least a year.