Ohio lawmakers to introduce bill banning abortion, criminalizing the procedure

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing a bill on Wednesday that would ban almost all abortions and criminalize 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.

[....]

"[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."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ohio-lawmakers-introduce-bill-banning-abortion-criminalizing-procedure/story?id=122922580

[mac56]

1. They love the babies until they're born

[Deuxcents]

2. The people in Ohio have spoken, many times and voted many times and yet, here they come again

With a beautifully written law the will take away a most personal decision and kill women.

[NEOBuckeye]

3. Fuck the Republicans

Abortion is literally the only thing they can ever focus on legislating against. Worthless Christo-fascists.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Ohio just voted to guarantee abortion rights to women!

These complete assholes never give up! I hope the courts throw this out!

[IcyPeas]

5. Project 2025:

The Top 5 Ways Project 2025 Would Destroy Abortion Access

1. End medication abortion—used in 63% of abortions in the U.S.—by revoking FDA approval of abortion drugs.

2. Allow hospitals to deny emergency, life-saving abortion care to pregnant patients in crisis.

3. Prosecute people for shipping and transporting of abortion pills and supplies.

4. Permit extremists to harass abortion clinic staff and patients without consequence.

5. Establish an abortion surveillance system that forces states to report the intricate, personal details of all patients receiving abortion care.

And there’s a lot more. They’ll also try to make it difficult or impossible to access birth control, emergency contraception, and other reproductive services, plus use the U.S.’s influence to undermine reproductive rights across the globe.

The Top 5 Ways Project 2025 Would Destroy Abortion Access | Center for Reproductive Rights https://share.google/ssydwCpMjjiLjpmz9

[sinkingfeeling]

6. How can a 'law overturn a constitutional amendment? This makes no sense.

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[Jack Valentino]

8. You took the words right out of my mouth. However, the Ohio State Supreme Court

is likely stacked with Republicans, who, as we well know, don't give a damn about any law--- all they care about is power.


No, in a normal state, you can't override a state constitutional amendment with a state law....
but any state controlled by Republicans is no longer 'normal'.

[soldierant]

9. Agreed.

I would expect it to be overturned the first time it came to a court. And I can only hope that the plaintiff in that case would survive it.

[Hassler]

7. Maybe Ohioans will eventually get the hint

To stop electing magats. Until then, they'll keep getting aka JD Vance, Moreno and shit like this.

[Danascot]

10. An anti-abortion advocate

supported the law despite the voter approved state constitutional amendment. "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."