ISSUE ONE PROPOSED AMENDMENT LANGUAGE & MEANING
We have a positive impact on society and achieve the mission of saving babies and changing lives.
"I will continue to champion our mission of empowering individuals and families to make Godly life choices."
THIS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT...
The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety
Being on the front Lines: Changing and Protecting Lives
THREATENS PARENTAL RIGHTS By using “individual” instead of adult or woman, anyone under the age of 18 could have an abortion or make any other reproductive decision without their parents’ consent or notification.
1. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion. 2. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either an individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or a person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care. 3. However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited if in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health. 4. As used in this Section, “Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case-by-case basis”; and “State” includes any governmental entity and political subdivision. 5. This Section is self-executing.
As a supporter of Elizabeth’s New Life Center, you share our commitment to advocate for the protection of life. Your generosity makes it possible for us to provide “frontline” services such as pregnancy tests and ultrasounds for women contemplating abortion, as well as prenatal care, parenting classes, mentorship, and more to support families in need. Monthly giving provides the financial resources needed to continue these services. If you haven’t already, will you consider setting up a monthly gift to help keep us on the “frontline” in defense of life? Simply scan the QR Code below or go to enlc.life/support-us to complete your gift. We thank you for your prayers and support. May God bless you for all you do for the cause of life.
MEET MIKE! I am now nearly five months into my new role as the Executive Director of Elizabeth’s New Life Center, after having the benefit of training with Vivian (our founder and previous Executive Director) for more than three months. The time spent with Vivian was like having “playing lessons” if you’re a golfer. You can spend countless hours practicing on the range, but the live instruction on the course, or in my case “on the job” with Vivian was invaluable.
PUTS WOMEN AT RISK Current Ohio laws* require abortion providers to explain procedure risks and ensure access to hospital transfer if needed. These health and safety standards could be seen as a “burden” and be eliminated, making it even less safe for women seeking an abortion.
Also invaluable was the “organized chaos” I experienced growing up with six siblings (notice the picture of me at age seven drawn by one of my comedic siblings). God placed me smack dab in the middle of the four girls of my family, and my brothers came along too late to offer much help.
I now know God has slowly prepared me for my role here at ENLC. Learning how to deal with the many issues big families present was good training for a leadership role in a sizeable ministry like ENLC with four different pillars, nine pregnancy centers, and nearly 100 employees. Additionally, being a member of a sport (baseball) through college also taught me to always focus on the greater good of the team rather than on my own personal goals. . After working in the financial sector for most of my career, I am blessed to be a member of the Elizabeth’s New Life Center team and will continue to champion our mission of empowering individuals and families to make Godly life choices. With determination and hope,
ALLOWS ABORTIONS THROUGH 9 MONTHS OF PREGNANCY In U.S. law,** “health” includes age or physical, emotional, or psychological well-being. This means a woman’s age or emotional health could be cited to justify aborting a full-term baby. An abortion- providing physician would decide when a baby could survive outside the womb, leaving no clear protections for preborn children.
Mike McGraw Executive Directo r
The time spent with Vivian was like having “playing lessons” if you’re a golfer. You can spend countless hours practicing on the range, but the live instruction on the course, or in my case “on the job” with Vivian was invaluable.
IS MISLEADING
Referring to “miscarriage care” promotes a myth that a “right to abortion” is necessary to preserve care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. This is false. Hospitals and physicians have always provided comprehensive miscarriage care and will continue to do so regardless of the outcome of this vote.
* Ohio Revised Code, Sections 2317.56 & 3702.303 ** Based on Doe v. Bolton
Vivian Koob "passing the torch" to Mike
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