House OKs bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks

The bill is utterly unconstitutional because it cuts against Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that states can not ban abortion before fetal viability.

The bill makes an exception when the life of the mother is in danger, but not for rape, incest, and anomalies in fetus.

“I can’t imagine what it would have been like to receive the news during my second trimester that my body was … essentially killing the baby inside me”, Democratic Rep. Kristin Boggs, who is pregnant, said while speaking about conditions that threaten the condition of the fetus. So if you’re advocating for an abortion ban like this one, you’re advocating for an abortion-hostile environment that leads women to self-inducing, which is horrific and unsafe. “I stress that we have to be careful and cautious and strategic – just because trump was elected doesn’t mean the Court is for us”.

On the opposite side of the argument, Kris Jordan, a Republican senator from Ostrander, who was behind the measure, highlighted OH as a “pro-life caucus”, and suggested the move could be seen as protecting children within any “stage of life”, referring to the law serving as an aforementioned amendment to a bill concerning child protection.

The anti-abortion “heartbeat bill” passed by the OH legislature this week is not at all what people think it is.

Mr. Kasich has signed every other anti-abortion bill placed before him, but he has questioned the constitutionality of House Bill 493, the “Heartbeat Bill”.

At least two other states – Arkansas and North Dakota – passed fetal heartbeat abortion laws. In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey defined viability at between 23 and 24 weeks.

Where does Kasich stand on abortion?

In other words, if Gov. Kasich signs this unquestionably unconstitutional bill into law, he will be saddling the citizens of OH with a legal bill that will cost the state dearly.

That’s because that organization, networked with forced-birthers across the nation, doesn’t support the fetal heartbeat bill.

The Columbus Dispatch and the Cleveland Plain Dealer have reported that Kasich expressed concerns about previous attempts to pass a “Heartbeat Bill”, including that it may not withstand legal challenges. Kasich has not indicated whether or not he will sign the bill into law.

The governor of OH also has the power of line-item veto, so Kasich could simply take out the heartbeat measure and pass the bill in its original form.

“We wanted to get our voice out there as quickly as possible and we wanted to make a statement to the community and mobilize them to call the governor and make our collective voice heard”, Cohen says. It added the bill would make doctors unable to do their jobs to the fullest and would “harm women’s health in very clear ways”.

“Science has given us a yardstick to measure whether a human being is alive or not, it’s called a heartbeat – it’s an indicator of life”, Porter declared. Though it passed the state House over a year ago, it previously met opposition in the Senate. If he does nothing, both bills automatically become law.

“This bill is critically important for all Ohioans to stop the preventable drunk driving tragedies in OH”, said Sen. “We’ve always been able to bottle it up in the Senate”. The Roe vs. Wade January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in the United States.

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. Scalia was known for dissenting opinions on abortion rights.

Trump’s position on abortion has been hard to pinpoint.

“The judges will be pro-life”, he said. Abortion restrictions in some of the states was blocked by lower courts.