Protect Women Ohio, a statewide ballot issue campaign to defeat Issue 1, will sponsor a Marietta fundraising event 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Knights of Columbus, 312 Franklin St.

Cost to attend is $50 per person. Additional levels of support include: patron, $250; host, $500; sponsor, $1,000; co-chair, $2,500; and chair, $5,000. Checks are to be made payable to Protect Women Ohio, PO Box 386, Tiffin, OH 44883. For credit card payments, use https://secure.windred.com/protect-women-ohio/marietta.

For more information or to RSVP, email sarah.m.bolte@gmail.com.

The Issue 1 on the Nov. 7 ballot proposes the following amendment to the state constitution:

Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio that Article I of the Ohio Constitution is amended to add the following Section:

Article I, Section 22. The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

A. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on:

¯ contraception;

¯ fertility treatment;

¯ continuing one’s own pregnancy;

¯ miscarriage care; and

¯ abortion

B. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either:

An individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or

A person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care.

However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited if in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.

C. As used in this Section:

“Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case-by-case basis.”

“State” includes any governmental entity and any political subdivision.

D. This Section is self-executing.

The flyer promoting the Sept. 20 Marietta event describes the Protect Women Ohio campaign as a “pro-woman, pro-parent campaign dedicated to defeating Issue 1, “an extreme constitutional amendment that will allow taxpayer-funded abortion.” The flyer also says the amendement eliminates parental notification laws for reproductive procedures. Protect Women Ohio, it says, seeks to “protect Ohio’s women, children and the unborn.”

The Issue 1 that was on the August special election ballot in Washington County was a different issue that dealt with procedures for amending the state Constitution. That Issue 1 was defeated in Washington County.