Ohio Senate passes statewide abortion limit
The anti choice crowd puts another one over, this time on the voters of Ohio who will pay expensive court costs to find out that without exceptions for the life of the mother that this is pretty much unconstitutional. The war on women continues, this is what happens when you give the modern GOP control during a time of economic crisis.
A nationwide push to limit access to abortions after a fetus can survive outside the womb moved forward July 13 in Ohio, where state senators cleared their version of the bill and sent it to Gov. John Kasich.
The Ohio bill requires doctors to test the fetus’ viability before performing abortions after 20 weeks and bans the procedure if there is a positive result. There is no exception in the bill for the health or life of the mother, but it does provide those as legal defenses for a doctor prosecuted for violating the law.
State Rep. Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson), primary co-sponsor of the bill, applauded its passage.
“Most bills can be measured in economic impact, measured in dollars; with House Bill 78, we can measure in lives,” she said in a prepared statement. “At 20 weeks, unborn babies can already hear, kick and feel pain. I was horrified when I learned that in Ohio abortion is legal up until the day a woman gives birth.”
The measure passed the Republican-led Senate by a 22-7 vote, after clearing the Senate Health Committee along party lines earlier in the day.