Republican Ohio state lawmakers on Thursday decided they were just going to ignore the will of the voters after the Tuesday ballot measure enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution passed by a 56.6 to 43.4 margin, announcing their intent to formulate some plan to circumvent it in an official public statement with the headline “DECEPTIVE OHIO ISSUE 1 MISLED THE PUBLIC BUT DOESN’T REPEAL OUR LAWS – Foreign Billionaires Don’t Get to Make Ohio Laws.”

“Ohio Legislators will be introducing several bills to address this issue in the coming weeks. ‘Foreign billionaires don’t get to make Ohio laws,’ said Jennifer Gross (R-West Chester), pointing to millions from billionaires outside America that helped fund Issue 1. Gross added, ‘This is foreign election interference, and it will not stand,'” the statement reads, which we guess means “Soros did this!”

“‘Issue 1 doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn’t even mention one,’ said Representative Bill Dean (R-Xenia). ‘The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.’ Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) said, ‘We will continue to be a voice for every child in their mother’s womb who cannot speak for themselves.’ Representative Beth Lear (R-Galena) stated, ‘No amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born,'” they continued.

The came the kicker: “To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative. The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.” So, like we wrote in the headline, Ohio Republicans are simply not going to abide by the will of the voters in their state.