Just when you think these people can't stoop to a new low to obstruct the law.
OH Anti-Choice Activists Will Present ‘Youngest’ Witness ‘Ever’ To Testify For Abortion Bill: A Fetus
While Republican lawmakers in Washington execute the most “comprehensive” assault on women’s rights, Republican-led state legislators are working at break-neck speed to develop the most extreme anti-choice legislation. Taking to that mission with zeal, Ohio state Rep. Lynn Wachtmann (R) unveiled the “heartbeat bill” last week, the “first proposal of it’s kind” that would “prohibit women from ending pregnancies at the first detectable fetal heartbeat,” which can come as early as 18 days after conception, when most women don’t even know they are pregnant.
Admitting that “there is no scenario” in which this bill survives in court, Ohio Right To Life and the right-wing advocacy group Faith2Action are still going to absurd lengths for the sake of promotion. Tomorrow at a hearing on the bill, the House Health Committee will hear “testimony” from its youngest witness ever: a “nine-week old” fetus:
“For the first time in a committee hearing, legislators will be able to see and hear the beating heart of a baby in the womb–just like the ones the Heartbeat Bill will protect,” said Janet (Folger) Porter, President of Faith2Action, and former Legislative Director of Ohio Right to Life, where she helped pass the nation’s first ban on Partial Birth Abortion.
Two in-utero babies will appear live before the committee by an ultrasound projector which is able to not only show that baby’s moving arms and legs, but also display–in color–the baby’s beating heart. “When passed, the Heartbeat Bill will insure that once that heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected,” added Porter.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/ohio-fetus-testimony/ 
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