Ohio House votes to ban abortion

[FourScore]

Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 01:26 PM PDT
Ohio House votes to ban abortion
by anastasia

This afternoon, with three onerous anti-abortion bills on the agenda, the Ohio House of Representatives voted 54-43 for the most extreme one: the so-called "heartbeat bill" which effectively bans all abortions. (It says abortion is illegal once a fetal heartbeat can be detected by any means, which can be as soon as a couple of weeks — long before many women even know they are pregnant). The bill now goes to the Senate which is likely to pass it and then to Governor John Kasich, who is certain to sign it.

Let this be a wake-up call to any of you folks out there who are STILL saying, "Oh, they'll never do it. It's too lucrative a fundraiser. It's too good a rallying call for the troops." Listen up: Ohio is most likely about to do it.

Of course, it will go through court challenges, most likely all the way to the Supreme Court, costing the taxpayers of Ohio millions of dollars more than Kasich's "cut spending" administration has already squandered needlessly. And who knows anymore what will happen there?

The force behind this bill is a woman named Janet Folger Porter, who has a group called Faith2Action. She is a dominionist theocrat so extreme she got herself thrown off a Christian broadcasting network. She has said her goal is to bring all the institutions of American society — government, education, business, media, etc — under the rule of Old Testament Biblical law in order to prepare for the return of Jesus Christ. This isn't about "unborn child," kids, or as today's House agenda called them, "unborn humans." It is plain and simply about turning women into chattel...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/28/989531/-Ohio-House-votes-to-ban-abortion?via=siderec

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The whole plan is to get laws enacted that violate Roe v. Wade,

so they are appealed to the Supreme Court - where they hope the current bunch of wingnuts will overturn Roe, and they probably will. This puts pro-choice forces in a bind because if the onerous state laws are not appealed they stay in effect. If they are appealed as clearly unconstitutional, the very serious risk is that Roe v. Wade goes down.

So I guess we're screwed either way.

[SDuderstadt]

2. Jesus...

I despise the GOP...