Ohio GOP Senate candidate says ballot measure would let a rapist 'force' a woman to get an abortion

[Demovictory9]

GOP is desperately lying about Issue 1


Ohio GOP Senate candidate says ballot measure would let a rapist 'force' a woman to get an abortion
Businessman Bernie Moreno and other Republican politicians in Ohio have tried to turn public support away from the Issue 1 ballot measure facing voters Tuesday.

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.

“That is insane. It is not representative of Ohio values. We absolutely have to make it clear that this ballot initiative has to be defeated. We have to vote no in November,” Moreno added.

Earlier in the 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.”

Nonpartisan legal experts say his remarks are rife with inaccuracies and falsehoods.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ohio-gop-candidate-bernie-moreno-issue-1-rapist-force-woman-abortion-rcna122856

[Walleye]

1. That such nonsense, they never think it through

How is the rapist supposed to make this demand, from jail? Parents don’t exactly give permission for their daughters to be raped. How is this even parental rights?

[Norbert]

2. There is a vote No Issue 1 TV spot saying this same thing.

They don't miss a trick.

I thought we would win this easily but with all this crap the GQP is pulling, like this, I am no longer that optimistic.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. They only way they can convince people is by lying. The bigger the lie the better.

Propaganda filled with lies is the biggest reason they win elections.

[Lovie777]

4. A rapist takes the victim's body without permission and by brutal "force"....................

the victim is left with emotional and bodily scars, bruises, leaving them in mental anguished.

But alas, GQP are unconcerned unless it happens close to home, maybe.

[lindysalsagal]

5. and Ohioans are dumb enough to buy this BS?

[CincyDem]

11. We can be pretty dumb but No...and it's a sign of their desperation.

Polling has been pretty consistently against them for months with YES in the mid-high 50’s. At no time has NO been over 40.

Republicans seem to view everything through the lens of controlling a woman’s body so as they reach for draws in these last days, they come up with this shit.

You have to believe two things to fall into this trap. First, that the rapist should get control of the victims body AGAIN. Second that there is a meaning number of pregnant victims who want to carry to term.

Even if there are times the second is true, my money says no Ohioan still undecided will buy into the first.

Finally, this is effectively the second vote on good issue. Recall, in the spring the republicans tried to up the threshold for amendments to 60% for this election. That was defeated easily. At this point everyone on both sides is pretty entrenched in their positions. If polls are finding undecided voters, they’re likely unlikely voters.

[Emile]

6. Rapists forcing women to get abortions. I

thought I heard it all.

[niyad]

9. Actually, it works the other way. In some 30 states, rapists

actually have parental rights, and can force a woman to carry to term. We live in a patriarchal, woman-hating, society.

[lindysalsagal]

12. I wish I could say that's an overstatement. But it's not. If not hatred, it's oversight.

Like we're not even there.

[chouchou]

7. OK That's it.

Ohio needs to move somewhere else.
Perhaps off the coast of Mississippi or Tim-Buc-Tu.

[LiberalFighter]

8. If only there was an equivalency of abortion involving him.

[Marthe48]

10. Always can tell a rwnj is lying

lips are moving.

I imagine this specimen doesn't bother to read his party's initiatives, let alone anything from a party working for human rights.

All he cares about is controlling the last detail of the females in his orbit.