Sarah LaTourette (born May 25, 1983) is an American politician who served as a member of the
Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.
The House of Representatives first met in Ch ...
from the 76th district and is now serving as the executive director of Ohio Family and Children First, a partnership of government agencies and community organizations that works to coordinate services for children in need.
Career
The daughter of former Congressman
Steve LaTourette, she worked in both the private and public sectors before seeking public office. She initially sought to challenge incumbent Republican
Matt Lynch
Matt Lynch (born June 11, 1951) is an American attorney, politician, and jurist serving as a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Eleventh District which includes Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage and Trumbull Counties. Lynch previously se ...
in a primary election, but he opted out of a re-election bid to run for the
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
. LaTourette was uncontested in the primary, and won the general election with 68% of the vote. Her district included most of
Geauga County
Geauga County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,397. The county seat is Chardon. The county is named for an Onondaga or Seneca language word meaning 'raccoon', originally the name of the ...
and the northern part of
Portage County. She resigned on May 5, 2019 to accept the job as executive director of the nonprofit Ohio Family and Children First.
Bills against abortion
LaTourette is an ardent opponent of abortion, and worked for two years as a lobbyist for anti-abortion organizations. LaTourette introduced Bill 214 to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2017, prohibiting "anyone from performing or inducing an abortion if that person has knowledge that the diagnosis or test result indicating Down syndrome in an unborn child is the reason for seeking the abortion
ndViolation of the statute would be a fourth-degree felony and would result in the State
f OhioMedical Board revoking a physician’s license."
References
External links
Official campaign site
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1983 births
Living people
Miami University alumni
Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Ohio
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
People from Geauga County, Ohio