Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, which organized the drive in the Buckeye State, announced a collection of more than 700,000 signatures by the July 5 ballot access deadline.

The 710,131 signatures surpassed the 413,487 required for access, allowing the measure to be included on Ohioans' ballots on Election Day in November 2023.

"The ACLU paid out-of-state signature collectors to lie to Ohioans about their dangerous amendment that will strip parents of their rights, permit minors to undergo sex change operations without their parents' knowledge or consent, and allow painful abortion on demand through all nine months," Amy Natoce, press secretary for Protect Women Ohio, a group opposed to the measure, said. "The ACLU's attempts to hijack Ohio's constitution to further its own radical agenda would be pathetic if it wasn't so dangerous."

While the ACLU and other proponents maintain the measure only pertains to abortion, many in Ohio are concerned with broad language.

It does not include age limitations and refers to "reproductive decisions" generally, which include but are "not limited to" procedures like abortion. Many opponents say the measure has the high potential to expand into gender transition procedures for children.

"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," the measure states.

Drs. Lauren Beene and Marcela Azevedo of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, which launched the "campaign to enshrine reproductive freedom and abortion access in the Ohio Constitution," referred to the two separately in a Wednesday press release, suggesting an expansive scope of the measure. ORF did the same.