Issue 1 is about profiting of Black women’s abortions

For decades, the Black community has been disproportionately impacted by the abortion industry, with its roots in eugenics and unabashed targeting of minority women.

If Issue 1 passes, the industry’s oppressive hold on generations of Black women and men will continue on across Ohio. 

Already, 48% of Ohio women who receive an abortion are Black, yet only 13 percent of the state’s population is Black.

In total, the National Right to Life Center estimates that 20 million Black lives have been lost due to abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Issue 1’s extreme abortion framework will only increase these numbers. 

Dispatch Editorial Board:Issue 1 opponents want Ohio to have the most extreme abortion ban in US. Don’t let them.

While abortion proponents often claim that abortion and racial equality go hand-in-hand, the truth is that innocent Black lives are being lost every day to the deplorable ideology found in the ranks of industry giants like Planned Parenthood.

In fact, Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a known eugenicist – something even her own organization recognized when they removed her name from a New York abortion clinic to “reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color.”