Ohio State Representatives Levi Dean and Johnathan Newman have filed a bill to abolish abortion in the state by granting pre-born babies equal protection under the law.
The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act, House Bill 370, points to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states “no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws’ to protect the life of preborn persons.”
“This bill recognizes that we are a country and state governed by laws, and that our laws must be constitutional,” Rep. Newman said in a press release. “Article I, Section 22 of Ohio’s Constitution, which was adopted by popular vote in 2023, has created an obvious conflict between the Ohio Constitution and U.S. Constitution.”
“We have a mandate from God to protect human life, which is of higher authority than any constitution,” Newman said. “Proverbs 24:11 commands us to ‘rescue those who are being carried off to death.’ Proverbs 17:15 says it is an ‘abomination’ to God for those who are guilty of doing harm to be called innocent.”
See the following statement from Representatives Levi Dean and Johnathan Newman, the primary sponsors of Ohio’s first abolition bill in state history… **H.B. 370**, the “Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act”. May God bless this bill, and may the Church in Ohio rise up to support… pic.twitter.com/ENnZ3fk72m
— End Abortion Ohio (@EndAbortionOH) June 18, 2025
“Our legislation to provide equal protection This bill only does what the U.S. Constitution requires and what we are already doing in Ohio and across the country,” Rep. Dean added. “In numerous cases where someone has been prosecuted for and convicted of killing a pregnant woman, the charges and conviction were for two counts of murder: one for the mother and one for her preborn child. Our laws and the courts do this because it is acknowledged that taking innocent life is wrong regardless of whether the victim is born or preborn.”
End Abortion Ohio, which helped with the bill, celebrated the filing in a post on X.
Announcing the filing of Ohio’s first equal protection bill!
Columbus, OH ––– This morning, on June 18th, State Representatives Levi Dean and Johnathan Newman jointly filed the Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act, which would abolish abortion by providing equal protection to…
— End Abortion Ohio (@EndAbortionOH) June 18, 2025
“The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act acknowledges the personhood of the preborn, and the sanctity of human life as created in the image of God,” the post read. “In acknowledging the personhood of the preborn, this legislation extends to the preborn the same criminal and civil protections found within the Ohio Revised Code. These legal protections would be granted from the beginning of biological development, the moment of fertilization.”
BREAKING: Several pro-abortion protesters crashed the @EndAbortionOH rally for the bill to completely abolish abortion in Ohio.
The protesters threw papers and screamed at attendees before police escorted them out.
️: @PastorNinja @ApologiaStudios pic.twitter.com/DgR8UuWHuE
— Foundation to Abolish Abortion (@AbolitionistFAA) June 18, 2025
Pro-abortion activists crashed a rally announcing the bill, throwing papers and screaming at attendees before being removed by law enforcement.
The Foundation to Abolish Abortion said in a press release, “There were over 22,000 babies in Ohio murdered through clinic-based abortions in 2023, with at least 45% of those abortions taking place through non-surgical methods such as abortion pills. Ohio women are increasingly seeking medication abortions instead of surgical procedures. This means merely banning abortion clinics and doctors from providing abortions while keeping self-induced abortion legal for women will not abolish abortion in Ohio. The act of prenatal homicide must be criminalized for all parties involved.”
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