Unethical Ohio Supreme Court justices secretly tell forced birther PAC there’s no right to abortion

It’s a really not good thing that in voters in so many states are put in charge of picking state judges, unlike almost all the other countries in the world. It’s a bad idea because a) it’s difficult for voters to make informed choices, and b) it leads judges to court and potentially be controlled by partisan interests. For Ohio voters, three Republican justices who are running for reelection on the state Supreme Court helped on the first issue, making it a little easier to make their decision on who to vote for, by proving that second problem: how influenced they are by partisan interests.

Cleveland’s ABC affiliate, News 5, obtained the questionnaires that current Justices Sharon Kennedy, Pat DeWine, and Pat Fischer filled out to get the support of Cincinnati Right to Life PAC back in March. All three of them agreed that there is no constitutional right to abortion. That’s before the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned that right.

Each of the justices also agreed with the assertion from the forced birth PAC that “An unborn child is biologically human at every stage of his or her biological development, beginning at fertilization.” From fertilization. Ohio could go from legal abortions up to 22 weeks to enforcing a personhood law with these three justices.