'Pro-Life' Board Member Lobbies Against Bill to Abolish Abortion+ Successfully Shuts it Down

Three days ago, Ohio Right to Life (ORTL) terminated their communications director Elizabeth Marbach for sharing the gospel on Twitter and the great sin of calling out a particularly noxious pro-choice activist by describing them as a “murderous liar” for spreading pro-baby-killing propaganda. Led by compromised men and weak-willed women, this is the same pro-life group that refused to support any abolitionist legislation because it punished women for killing their babies, taking an active role in blocking these bills from becoming law.

Well, they’re at it again.

A new report from The Sentinel reveals that Mike McGuire, one of ORTL’s board members who also works as a Senior Republican aid, has been working behind the scenes to crush a bill to abolish abortion that the abolitionist group End Abortion Ohio crafted.

The proposed abolitionist legislation would treat abortion like murder and punish all without partiality, making no distinction between women who kill their preborn babies in the womb and those who kill their postbirth babies out of the womb.

But pro-life board member McGuire finds this intolerable, and ORTL is on record saying they will “continue to oppose legislative and policy initiatives that criminalize women who seek abortion.” Consequently, McGuire has been appearing at legislative meetings to lobby against the bill and apply the squeeze to malleable party members. Joining forces with ORTL is The Center for Christian Virtue, an ideologically aligned co-belligerent that is the largest “Christian public policy organization” in the state.

This one-two pressure punch eventually convinced Republican legislator Bill Dean to pull his support, despite initially pledging to introduce the bill, ensuring its demise. End Abortion Ohio laments:

Our bill, the Abolition of Abortion in Ohio Act, was poised to be introduced on September 13th. This would have been Ohio’s first bill of complete and total abolition. It would have guaranteed equal protection to the preborn and criminalized the act of abortion.
On Saturday, Rep. Dean told us that he will no longer introduce the bill this September.
Sadly, our opposition has not come from the pro-abortion side but from Ohio’s trusted pro-life organizations.

End Abortion Ohio President Austin Beigel was circumspect about ORTL’s gambit, explaining: “To say that I am heartbroken is an understatement, but this betrayal did not surprise God. What man meant for evil, God intends for good.”