OH Senate Candidate Claims Ballot Issue Allows Rapists To Force Abortions By Minors Without Parental Consent

November 2, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno falsely claimed in a recent interview that Issue 1 — the ballot measure seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution — would allow a rapist to “force” a woman to have an abortion. The remark by Moreno, a businessman, is the latest from groups and individuals opposed to Issue 1 to mischaracterize the proposal by tying it to parental rights.

“As a dad of two girls, it’s about having that girl be able to be raped and having a rapist force her to have an abortion — all without your consent — as a minor,” Moreno said in an Oct. 12 episode of the RestoreLiberty.US podcast. Moreno mischaracterized Issue 1 as being about “on-demand abortion, late-term abortion, stripping parental rights.” If passed, he said, it will have “opened a door to transgender surgeries, transgender mutilation of children.”

Read the full article. The first half of Moreno’s campaign ad below appeared to have been filmed in the 1950s.

Ohio GOP Senate candidate says ballot measure would let a rapist ‘force’ a woman to get an abortion https://t.co/vKUdBx2uUj

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