REMINDER: Moreno, LaRose, Dolan Already Voted Against Protections For IVF
February 27, 2024
Ohio Capital Journal: “All Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidates opposed November amendment passed by 57% of Ohio voters that guaranteed rights to fertility treatment”
Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno, Frank LaRose, and Matt Dolan already voted against protections for IVF by opposing November’s Issue 1, which would have “protect[ed] access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.”
“Ohioans don’t have to guess where Bernie Moreno, Frank LaRose, or Matt Dolan stand on protecting fertility treatments like IVF – because they’ve already voted against it,” said ODP spokesperson Katie Smith.
Here’s what you need to know:
Bernie Moreno, Frank LaRose, and Matt Dolan all opposed Issue 1 – which contained protections for in-vitro fertilization treatments – and now support overruling Ohioans by passing a national abortion ban.
- Bernie Moreno opposed Issue 1 and donated $100,000 to Protect Women Ohio – the group leading the campaign to defeat November’s Issue 1 last year.
- Frank LaRose made himself the face of Issue 1 in August – saying it was “100%” about defeating the November amendment. LaRose later colluded with out-of-state special interests to try to ban abortion by rewriting the Issue 1 November ballot language to be intentionally misleading.
- Matt Dolan said defeating the Issue 1 amendment was a “priority.”
Read more:
Ohio Capital Journal: National and Ohio Republicans desperately pretending they haven’t been attacking IVF
Marilou Johanek
February 27, 2024
- Don’t believe a word. The same extremists lining up to support a federal abortion ban, that would override hard-earned reproductive freedoms in states like Ohio, are now tripping all over themselves to profess their support for IVF and personal choice.
- Just a few months ago, Frank LaRose, Bernie Moreno, and Matt Dolan aggressively opposed a statewide issue that established a constitutional right “to one’s own reproductive medical treatment,” including the freedom to make decisions on abortion, contraception, fertility treatments, continuing one’s own pregnancy and miscarriage care.
- LaRose spearheaded the campaign against access to reproductive choices that encompassed IVF.
- Multi-millionaire Moreno fought reproductive freedoms with six-figure donations to anti-abortion groups mobilized to defeat the right of Ohioans to make their own reproductive decisions.
- Matt Dolan disparaged the constitutionally protected freedoms Ohio voters decisively approved last November as too extreme — and then disparaged voters as being too dim to really understand what they were voting for.
- Heading into the March 19 GOP primary, all three Republicans say they’re open to canceling the will of state voters to impose federal restrictions on abortion rights and reproductive health care.
- The party owns what Dobbs has wrought in pain and suffering. No matter what…a bunch of course-correcting senatorial candidates say after fighting to deny women their reproductive rights and reproductive choice — don’t believe a word.
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