Ohio Definition of Personhood Amendment (2015)

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A Ohio Definition of Personhood Amendment was not on the November 3, 2015 ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the measure would have done the following:[1]

  • Defined the word "person" and "men" to include every human being at every stage of biological development, including fertilization

Text of measure[edit]

Ballot summary[edit]

The ballot summary was as follows:[1]

The Ohio Personhood Amendment would amend the Ohio Constitution to define the word "person" and "men" as those terms are used in Article 1, Section 1, and Article 1, Section 16, of the Ohio Constitution, to include every human being at every state of biological development, including fertilization.[2]

Full text[edit]

The full text of the measure is available here.[1]

Path to the ballot[edit]

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Ohio

Petitioners needed to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition filing. If the initiative's filing was approved, petitioners would have then needed to collect 305,591 signatures by July 1, 2015, to get the initiative placed on the November 2015 ballot.

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Footnotes[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ohio Secretary of State, "Pending Statewide Ballot Issues," accessed February 17, 2015
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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