Issue 1 Passes, Enshrines Abortion Rights in Ohio
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
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Summary
Tuesday, Ohio became the most recent conservative state to defend a "right" to abortion. Only a year and a half ago, pro-lifers celebrated the legal significance of overturning Roe v. Wade. Since then, voters in state after state have protected the right to end innocent, preborn life.
This is a "you are here" moment. Many people, even if personally opposed to abortion, are not willing to restrict anyone else's freedom. This is part of the legacy of Roe: Americans learned an absolute allegiance to absolute autonomy along with what Joe Rigney called the "cruelty of untethered empathy."
"We won a generational legal argument in overturning Roe, but the teaching effect of a fifty year law to etch a lie about what human life is and when it begins has reaped tragic and generational consequences to reverse."
Political strategies are so important: timing, wording on ballot initiatives, etc. But most of our work to defend life is upstream from the ballot box.
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| 0:00.0 | With a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:05.0 | Tuesday, Ohio became the most recent conservative state to defend a so-called right to abortion. |
| 0:09.0 | A year and a half ago, ProLifer celebrated the legal significance of overturning Roe v. Way, but since then |
| 0:13.8 | voters in state after state have protected the right to end innocent |
| 0:17.2 | preborn lives. This is a you are here moment for us. Many people, even if |
| 0:21.2 | personally opposed to abortion, are not willing to restrict anyone's freedom. |
| 0:25.5 | This is part of the legacy of Roe. |
| 0:27.5 | Americans learned in absolute allegiance to autonomy, along with what Joe Rigny called the cruelty |
| 0:32.2 | of untethered empathy. |
| 0:33.6 | Andrew Walker tweeted this, quote, we want a generational legal argument in overturning Roe, |
| 0:38.3 | but the teaching effect of a 50-year law to etch a lie about what human life is and when it begins as |
| 0:44.2 | re-tragic and generational consequences to reverse." |
| 0:47.3 | End quote. |
| 0:48.3 | Political strategies are important. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm wording on-ballad initiatives, etc. |
| 0:52.4 | But most of the work to defend life |
| 0:54.5 | continues to be upstream from the ballot box. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm John Stone Street. |
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