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Personhood Ohio To Restart Campaign To Outlaw Abortion | Joining the nationwide efforts, Personhood Ohio submitted a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions by defining “persons” as “any human being at any stage of development, including fertilization” — a definition that outlaws abortions in the case of rape, incest, or risk to the mother’s life and that could ban many forms of birth control. But Ohio Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine quickly shut down the effort over a technicality. Instead of challenging the decision, Personhood Ohio announced yesterday that it is “starting over” by revising the proposal and gathering another 1,000 signatures. “I disagree with the attorney general’s reasoning,” said Personhood Ohio Director Patrick Johnston. “But for the sake of time, this is the quickest way to resolve the dilemma.”