Four GOP lawmakers say they want to be the judges of Ohio's abortion laws

[Diamond_Dog]

Unconstitutional and idiotic political stunt! And they complain about “government overreach”!

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Four House Republican lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation that would cut out the courts and instead declare themselves the arbiters of when abortions are legal in Ohio.

Their news release is the latest in a string of signals that state lawmakers may try to undermine the newly minted state constitutional guarantee to abortion access in Ohio.

On Tuesday, voters passed Issue 1 on a roughly 57% to 43% split. The amendment, which takes effect on Dec. 7, grants every individual the right to carry out their own decisions on abortion, contraception, fertility treatment and miscarriage care. It blocks the state from passing laws limiting abortion access before the point of viability, roughly 22 weeks into a pregnancy. From there, laws could limit abortion except when it’s necessary to protect the health and life of the woman.

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“We will withdraw jurisdiction from the courts so that they cannot misapply Issue 1 for the benefit of the abortion industry,” Gross said in a similar version of the release, published by the anti-abortion interest group Ohio Value Voters and later detailed by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

In interviews, three different constitutional lawyers said the proposal is likely unconstitutional and amounts to a political stunt.

More at link

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/11/four-gop-lawmakers-say-they-want-to-be-the-judges-of-ohios-abortion-laws.html

[Lovie777]

1. The GQPs across the country have totally lost their minds.........................

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I hope the same 57% that supported the Amendment will also hold these God-Wannabee's

accountable in the next election cycle. Time to remove the anti-democratic cancer that is taking over the Republican Party,

[patphil]

3. It would seem to me that such action would violate the Ohio state constitution.

These legislators want to set up a separate pseudo -court that would take the place of the actual court. If allowed, it will render the Judiciary Branch powerless.
Their philosophy is that if you can't get what you want by playing by the rules, in this case the state constitution, then just change the rules to void that particular part of the state constitution.
How very fascist of them!
This is very similar to what Netanyahu and the Likud party tried to do in Israel.

[T_A]

4. The RightWing Fascist Repubs

in Ohio and across the county, just keep doing what results in the TV ads writing themselves.

[PJMcK]

5. Their plan is unconstitutional

The Legislature cannot replace the Judiciary.

Period.

[yankee87]

6. Ohio Supreme Court

The problem is these fascists know they will probably win in all the corrupt courts in Ohio. It will go to SCOTUS and that could drag this out.