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According to the Ohio Department of Health, 145 of almost 21,000 abortions in the state were performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy in 2015. When you protect the unborn I think it is a good thing.

Senate Republicans added provisions earlier in the day that would ban abortions starting when the heartbeat of a fetus can be detected, typically about six weeks into a pregnancy.

Republican backers say a patchwork of minimum wage laws would create an uncertain business environment that could hurt current companies and drive those considering OH to look at other states. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) for consideration. The House passed Senate Bill 127 by a vote of 64-29, and returned it to the Senate which concurred, 23-8, with a change made by the House. Not even Ohio’s largest anti-abortion group, Ohio Right To Life, supported the bill, because it believed it would not hold up to any constitutional challenges.

OH lawmakers have passed what is being called the “Heartbeat Bill“.

With a conservative president-elect and conservative Supreme Court justices, OH had no problems pushing through the strictest abortion law to date. It would become the tightest abortion restriction in the country. If he waits for longer than 10 days to sign the bill, then it will become law by next year. “When you overreach, sometimes the courts get the last say”. Even if a fetus could somehow be declared viable at around a month old, presenting women with a mere one or two week window to terminate a pregnancy would seem to fail the undue burden test.

Even if Trump acts quickly to replace deceased justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat Republicans refused to let President Obama fill, Gonidakis said another vacancy would be required.

And while some are anxious that the law sets up a test case that might become a referendum on the supreme court’s Roe v Wade president, Ohio’s arm of the American Civil Liberties Union says it’s ready to declare a legal challenge if the bill becomes law.

Though such bills are likely to be struck down in court, state legislators nonetheless continue to try to pass them.

Kellie Copeland, who serves as the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, has said in a released statement that the passing of the law was meant to cash-in on the recent election of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, and speculates that it is a first step “poised to overturn Roe v. Wade”.

This was the third time OH attempted to pass it, after it failed in 2012 and 2014.

One of the unusual characteristics of this particular bill is that it also bans abortions sought due to rape or incest, a point usually conceded by conservative lawmakers.

“That could certainly be part of the strategy”, noted Allen. As a ban on abortion several weeks before viability, it flies in the face of the current Supreme Court standard, but the hope is to nudge the court with the right test case. The legislation, which was passed in OH on Tuesday, previously saw pushback over concerns that it would be deemed unconstitutional, but Republicans are confident the new president and SCOTUS appointees will shift the dynamic.