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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOhio lawmakers to introduce bill banning abortion, criminalizing the procedure
The "Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act" would overturn the amendment to the Ohio constitution, voted on in 2023, that establishes "an individual right to one's own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion" before viability.
Reproductive medical treatment includes contraception, fertility treatments and miscarriage care.
Abortions are currently allowed up to 20 weeks since fertilization, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that studies sexual and reproductive rights.
"[It] is a very, very simple and beautiful piece of legislation in that all it does is identify all human beings as persons deserving equal protection of the law, both born humans and pre-born humans," anti-abortion advocate Austin Beigel, with End Abortion Ohio, told ABC News. "So, it identifies those personhood rights starting at the moment of fertilization, when the new distinct organism is formed, the new human life that being that person now has equal protection under the law."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ohio-lawmakers-introduce-bill-banning-abortion-criminalizing-procedure/story?id=122922580
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Cite the many references to abortion in the Bible in their decision making process? Did any offer to voluntarily give up their churchs tax exempt status because they dont give a fuck about the separation of church and state?
newdeal2
(4,765 posts)What BS.
Diamond_Dog
(39,759 posts)in November 2023, 57% of Ohioans voted to enshrine abortion access into the state constitution.
So this piece of shit bill should go nowhere.
Blue Full Moon
(3,147 posts)Before the election that the bill passed. It was to try and stop constituents from initiating bills. It failed.
bif
(26,666 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)When Beigel was asked if he was concerned that the bill may go against the will of the voters, he said he was not because "the will of the voters was evil."
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)The bill would ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. The only exceptions would be for a spontaneous miscarriage or to save the life of the pregnant woman.
The bill would also criminalize those who have abortions, not just the providers who perform the procedure.