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An Urgent Memo from our friends at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, October 29, 2024<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To:<\/span><\/strong> Pro-Life Campaigns and Public Officials Fighting \u201cRight to Abortion\u201d State Ballot Measures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From:<\/span><\/strong> Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:<\/span><\/strong> 10\/29\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject:<\/span><\/strong> Closing Messaging for Ballot Measure Campaigns: Current Pro-Abortion Lawfare<\/strong> Proves State Abortion Ballot Measures Are Trojan Horses for Overturning Pro-Parent, Pro-Life Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the months leading up to the passage of Issue 1 in Ohio, and Prop 3 in Michigan, pro-life advocates warned that the abortion amendments would nullify existing health and safety standards for women, and would even jeopardize parental consent laws. The media and pro-abortion advocates attacked these concerns \u2013 and often wouldn\u2019t even report on them \u2014 as misinformation and fear mongering.  They argued that the amendments would merely \u201crestore Roe<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, however, we see the concerns raised by pro-life advocates coming to fruition. The ACLU and the abortion industry circle like sharks around states with amendments that have enshrined the \u201cright to abortion\u201d into their constitutions, filing lawsuits challenging various health and safety laws almost as soon as these initiatives pass. Unfortunately, the broad, often undefined language in these amendments opens the door to judicial interpretation far different than what voters expected based on ballot summaries, media coverage, and even the text itself. This is on purpose; what voters are told before Election Day <\/em>is vastly different from what pro-abortion organizations ask courts to impose once these amendments pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the closing weeks before the election, the coalitions fighting abortion ballot campaigns across the country must raise awareness of pro-abortion gaslighting and lawfare and expose the truth that these amendments allow\u2014and often require\u2014far more than merely \u201crestoring Roe<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, pro-life advocates must emphasize how these ballot initiatives undermine and threaten parental rights. When Michigan passed Prop 3, pro-life advocates warned that its deceptive language would pave the way for minors to receive abortion and other elective procedures without parental consent or even knowledge. Just this past March, the ACLU of Michigan \u2013 one of the leading organizations behind the amendment \u2013 issued a report saying that parental consent laws \u201charm young people and should be repealed<\/a>.\u201d A few months prior, an ACLU of Ohio attorney implied that Issue 1 would invalidate Ohio\u2019s parental consent law, claiming that \u201claws that conflict with it cannot be enforced, should not be enforced.<\/a>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, campaigns should warn taxpayers that they could be forced to foot the bill should the amendments pass. Today, the ACLU and its affiliates are exploiting the amendments to attack longstanding state laws \u2013 allowed under Roe and Casey \u2013 which prevent the taxpayer funding of elective late-term abortions. In a June 2024 challenge to Michigan\u2019s \u201cno taxpayer funding\u201d law, the ACLU of Michigan Deputy Legal Director Bonsitu Kitaba<\/a> claimed that \u201cthe Michigan Constitution guarantees the fundamental right to reproductive freedom for everyone, but the coverage ban singles out and excludes people who are Medicaid-eligible from this right\u2026this is unacceptable\u2026we will continue to fight to ensure that abortion care is available to all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, pro-life coalitions and campaigns must expose pro-abortion lawfare that uses the passage of these amendments to revoke basic health and safety standards for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two separate cases in Michigan and Ohio are currently attacking women\u2019s informed consent and safety standards, arguing that those states\u2019 amendments render them \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d In Northland Family Planning Clinic v. Michigan<\/em><\/a>, pro-abortion advocates at the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged several Michigan laws that require that women give informed consent, have a 24-hour reflection period, and are seen by a licensed physician prior to obtaining an abortion. These laws are demonized as infringing on the new \u201cright\u201d to an individual\u2019s decision making for abortion established by Michigan\u2019s Prop 3. In June, the Court of Claims sided with the abortion industry and halted Michigan\u2019s 24-hour waiting period law, the physician-only law, and the informed consent requirements. The Court\u2019s decision explicitly stated that \u201cMichigan voters dramatically changed the Michigan Constitution by adopting \u00a7 28 of Article 1.\u201d The Court determined that basic informed consent laws for women infringe on Prop 3\u2019s \u201cdecision-making rights\u201d since they may []\u201cguide a patient away from the choice of having an abortion.\u201d (Northland<\/em> opinion page 41.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Preterm-Cleveland v. Ohio<\/em>, a group of Ohio abortion businesses and a practitioner represented by the ACLU of Ohio and Planned Parenthood challenged several Ohio laws \u2013 laws that ensure reflection periods, informed consent, and in-person consultation with a licensed physician \u2013 because they allegedly infringe on the \u201cright to abortion\u201d created by Issue 1. The State argued that the laws in question are essential for informed consent and screening for coercion or abuse. Yet the Court ultimately enjoined the laws as hindering the right established by Issue 1, which the Judge stated goes further than \u201crestoring Roe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two additional cases in Ohio and Michigan seek to block critical safeguards on dangerous chemical abortion drugs, as well as to force taxpayers to fund elective-late-term abortions. Both rely on the states\u2019 recently passed abortion amendments as ground for invalidating these state laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Ohio Department of Health<\/em>, a group of abortion businesses and practitioners are suing to revoke a law that prevents sending dangerous chemical abortion drugs through the mail and which requires that women receive in-person counseling and screening by a licensed physician prior to obtaining the drugs. These laws are essential for screening for ectopic pregnancies or other life-threatening complications. However, pro-abortion advocates argued that Issue 1 invalidates these essential protections for women. The Court sided with the abortion advocates and enjoined the laws while the case proceeds. The deciding Judge admitted in his opinion that Issue 1 \u201cimmediately nullified the status quo,\u201d and that the amendment goes further than Roe<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, In the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association of Kalamazoo, Michigan v. State of Michigan<\/em>, the YWCA of Kalamazoo is challenging Michigan laws which protect taxpayers from having to fund elective late-term abortions. The YWCA argues that these laws are now unconstitutional under Prop 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In closing, the ACLU and abortion advocates use abortion amendments to challenge parental rights and force taxpayer-funded, all-trimester abortion through litigation. They are quickly building legal precedent through such lawfare that will allow them to use state constitutional amendments to do away with commonsense state laws and enact policies that go well beyond \u201crestoring Roe<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now more than ever, pro-life advocates and coalitions must use the examples of lawsuits in Ohio and Michigan to educate voters that the amendments will allow the abortion radicalism we warned of, and which most Americans oppose. As Ohio and Michigan prove, passing \u201cright to abortion\u201d constitutional amendments have allowed new judicial interpretations that overrule decades-long policies protecting women, minors, and conscientious taxpayers, leaving states exposed to the full radicalism of the pro-abortion Left<\/p>\n\n\n

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