Abortion amendment backers threaten lawsuit over ballot language they say amounts to propaganda

[werdna]

Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board have decided on language to be printed on Nov. 7 ballots to explain the proposed abortion rights amendment – including phrases the measure’s backers say amount to propaganda.

Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, after a late Thursday afternoon Ballot Board meeting, said it is considering filing a lawsuit at the Ohio Supreme Court to compel the board to use more accurate language. The campaign doesn’t have a lot of time – only roughly a week to submit a complaint.

By Laura Hancock, cleveland.com

[Lonestarblue]

1. Republicans are doing everything they can to deny women reproductive rights, but it won't work.

Women are not going back to the days of no birth control and no abortion except the dangerous kind.

[TheRealNorth]

2. So the fuckers can change the language?

I always thought the language of the ballot initiative is determined when you turn in the paperwork that everyone signed.

[Freethinker65]

3. They should sue, and win. The wording is not what the signees of the petition signed.

Who knows if there would have been enough valid signatures for this GOP newly created very selectively worded amendment proposal.

I think those that signed would have standing in that what they agreed to (as if a contract) was changed after they gave their signature.

[yankee87]

4. Such BS

Qpublicans in my state will do anything to deny women their bodily autonomy.