Ohio Abortion Bill!!!!!?

This was copy and pasted.I personally think it is ridiculous but I want to hear what you think.



Ohio will be the testing ground for a new approach to limiting abortions that would prohibit women from ending pregnancies at the first detectable fetal heartbeat, sometimes as early as 18 days after conception.



Republican state Rep. Lynn Wachtmann is preparing to unveil the so-called Heartbeat Bill on Wednesday. It is the first proposal of its kind in the nation, with Texas, Georgia and Oklahoma among states watching closely.



The bill was created by Janet Folger Porter, a native Ohioan and president of the conservative interest group Faith2Action. She says she helped craft the nation's first ban on late-term abortions as a then-legislative director at Ohio Right to Life and again picked Ohio to be at the forefront. Forty of 99 Ohio representatives have signed onto the heartbeat bill.



"We can't carry all the babies out of the burning building in one trip, but this bill will carry most of them out with it," Porter said. "With this legislation, we can save more than 20,000 lives a year. We've been taking baby steps for a long time. This is a leap."



Lobbying for the bill with Republican Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-controlled state Legislature will take the form of heart-shaped balloons sent to their offices. The bill also is being promoted on a website that features a music video complete with dancing babies and a few fetuses appearing to keep the beat from inside the womb.



"After all, Ohio is the `Heart of it All,' so it's only fitting that we protect our fellow human beings with beating hearts," Wachtmann said in a release announcing the bill. "Already, other states are looking to Ohio to lead the way and provide model legislation for them to pass in their states."



Kellie Copeland, executive director of the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, called all the fun images distasteful.



"It trivializes something that's really serious," she said. "If you're going to outlaw abortion in the first trimester, at a point when many women don't even know they're pregnant, it's not a warm fuzzy balloon situation."



Copeland said the vast majority of abortions in Ohio take place within the first three months of pregnancy and those that take place later are most often associated with medical emergencies.



"My immediate reaction is Ohio's facing this huge budget deficit, this economic crisis, and here you've got the chairman of the House Health Committee moving legislation that would plunge the state into years of costly litigation," she said. "This would be litigated immediately, and that's not going to be free. Meanwhile, we're talking about cutting Medicaid funding and women's health care."



Porter said she advocates abortion foes pursuing their goals regardless of legal consequences.



"Here's my feeling: I don't think we're called to sit on our hands and do things that only (U.S. Supreme Court) Justice (Anthony) Kennedy likes. Our role in a representative democracy is to approach our representatives, and that's exactly what we've done," she said. "I predict this is going to spark a wildfire."



Backers of the Ohio bill believe its strength is in its basis in science, as opposed to a moral message.



In his letter unveiling the bill to fellow lawmakers last week, Wachtmann pointed out, "Cardiac activity begins at a relatively precise moment in time, and the fetal heartbeat is readily detected with modern medical equipment of modest cost." The heartbeat can be heard within 18 to 24 days of conception at the earliest, and in almost all cases by six weeks.



"The pro-aborts are terrified because they know that this is going to work," Porter said. "They realize that we have taken from them all of their scare tactics and we have the strongest arguments."



"Saying it doesn't make it so," Copeland retorted. "They can proclaim what they want. The fact is we still have a Constitution and legal precedent in this country. This bill is blatantly unconstitutional, and they know it."



A spokesman for Kasich said the governor "is pro-life and believes in the sanctity of life" but will not weigh in on individual pieces of pending legislation.Ohio Abortion Bill!!!!!?
Retarded bill is retarded. A heart beat means nothing when the brain isn't even fully formed...
I read enough to see that the bill is amazing! It would be better to ban abortion entirely, but this would be a huge, beautiful step. After all, God created every person in the womb in His image. Protect them.Ohio Abortion Bill!!!!!?
Republicans better concentrate on jobs, taxes and the economy! This abortion business is a huge turn off for me. This is why I don't vote republican!
only in americaOhio Abortion Bill!!!!!?
I doubt a step backwards will be taken on the issue
Why would anyone want to put a child into a situation where they will not be loved, seen as a burden, most likely abused in some why because the mother did not want the child in the first place. All this bill will do is add to the poverty that is slowly eating away at out lower income families. Do people really think that the women who have to make the choice to have an abortion do so with no feeling? women who are forced to carry a child full term will resent the child and the government and everyone..including the baby everyone wants to save will pay for it in the long run. Women have a voice and should have a choice.
I like it. Killing babies has to stop.