The American Civil Liberties Union has become a civil liberties organization in name only — an abomination to its own former leaders due to the abandonment of its founding principles. As of today, its primary purpose is to push ridiculous left-wing proposals, including undermining the ability of even the most loving and capable parents to raise and protect their children.

In Ohio, the ACLU is pushing a constitutional amendment that reads as follows: “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.”

This amendment would make abortion legal up to birth, on-demand, for any reason or no reason — even for girls under the age of 18, without their parents ever knowing anything about it.

Given how vague the amendment is, the lines about “reproductive decisions” and “fertility treatment” could also be extended to sex reassignment procedures for children, including irreversible surgeries and chemical procedures that would render children sterile for the rest of their lives.

It is perfectly reasonable to take this as ACLU is trying to push such a provision through the back door with such vague language, because the ACLU openly argues that children should be able to transition without the consent or knowledge of their parents.

In fact, the ACLU has even been actively intimidating schools into keeping parents in the dark about gender transitions, threatening to sue schools that inform parents. The morally unmoored organization has been doing this going back to at least 2019. That process of strong-arming school officials into silent complicity becomes a lot easier when liberal activists can point to a vague constitutional amendment that left-wing judges would undoubtedly abuse.

This is not simply a problem in Ohio.

This is what the ACLU is trying to push nationwide, in defiance of the rights of parents to raise their children. The ACLU places liberal gender ideology above all other things, including actual civil rights, because it is nothing more than a toxic left-wing organization wearing the corpse of its past self as a costume.