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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julie Carr Smyth and Christine Fernando

An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents' messaging is on parental rights

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The wording of a proposed constitutional amendment on Ohio's fall ballot to ensure abortion rights seems straightforward: It would enshrine the right “to make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions.”

Yet as the campaigning for and against the nation's latest tug-of-war over abortion begins in earnest this weekend, voters are getting a different message from the measure's opponents. They are characterizing it as threatening a wide range of parental rights.

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