A team, Atheninans for Bodily Autonomy, has requested Athens Town Council not to criminalize reproductive well being selections.
The group has drafted an ordinance that will be submitted Friday to council for consideration. Athens Messenger received a duplicate of the proposed ordinance that is on the Messenger’s site athensmessenger.com online.
“We hope to make Athens a sanctuary city for these seeking and supporting others who have had abortions, a town in which folks are in a position to seek health care treatment without the need of worry of prosecution,” explained Ari Faber, the group’s spokesperson. “Athens is a city where we glance out for our neighbors and this ordinance would enhance people values. The ordinance also considers the pupils of OU and the obligation of treatment we have to them.”
The U.S .Supreme Court ruled on June 24 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and fitness Business that “The Constitution does not confer a suitable to abortion Roe and Casey are overruled and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected associates.”
The group’s proposed ordinance arrives after a lot more than 50 men and women attended the Aug. 1 City Council conference looking for to make Athens a sanctuary city for reproductive health and fitness. All through their opinions to council, some people famous that Cleveland and Columbus are among cities in Ohio that approved ordinances de-penalizing abortion.
The ordinance is equivalent to the Columbus a single, Faber said.
“I have been a lifelong supporter of Prepared Parenthood,” Mayor Steve Patterson explained. “I am massive supporter of women’s reproductive wellbeing care legal rights. The overturning of Roe sends shockwaves in my feeling in the course of the nation when it arrives to women’s individual private conclusions about their wellbeing treatment, so I feel that these initiatives are great. I am wanting forward to observing the resolution that they have set forth. I am mindful of the petition they have put jointly. I am an avid supporter of women’s appropriate to decide on.”
Patterson stated he is the father of two 10-and-half-year-old twin daughters.
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