After months of denial, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted that the proposal to make the constitution harder to amend is “100%” due to efforts to legalize abortion.

Advocates have argued that Issue 1, which would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution, is actually about trying to make it harder to make abortion a constitutional right.

But on Nov. 17, 2022, Secretary of State Frank LaRose said otherwise.

“That’s not what this kind of a change should ever be about,” the secretary said.

Ohioans will likely get the choice this November of enshrining reproductive rights in law.

“‘Why are you doing it now?’ Because it’s ready now,” he added.

Every single time LaRose has been asked if Issue 1 was related to an abortion vote, he has denied it.

“If this is about one specific issue, then somebody’s not really focused on what we’re trying to accomplish here,” the secretary said.

But the words he said to reporters appear different than when he spoke to his supporters.

“It’s 100% about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution,” LaRose said.

Raw video obtained by OCJ/WEWS from Scanner Media shows the secretary at Lincoln Day on May 22, 2023 in Seneca County, with what advocates call “saying the quiet part out loud.”

“It is utterly shameful that Secretary LaRose or anyone would work to take this freedom away from us for just one issue,” Jen Miller with the League of Women Voters of Ohio said.

Miller explained that LaRose was the one who first...

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