just when you thought it was safe to be a woman in ohio. .

[niyad]

Just When You Thought it Was Safe To Be a Woman in Ohio…
December 2, 2011 by Holly L. Derr


After languishing for nearly five months, a “fetal heartbeat” bill that passed the Ohio House in June has reared its ugly head and been referred to a Senate committee. Though Senate president Tom Niehaus says more closed-door meetings will come first, the Health, Human Services and Aging Committee will begin deliberations on the measure soon. The bill will then move to a vote in the Senate, where Republicans have a 23-10 majority.
As previously reported by Ms., the measure would outlaw abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, often as early as six weeks into the pregnancy. At that point, many women don’t even know they are pregnant. The bill contains no exceptions for rape or incest. But as Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, pointed out:
It’s not going to end abortions, it’s going to make them illegal and dangerous.
It takes a lot to make Ohio Right to Life, which opposes the bill on the grounds that it won’t stand up in court, look reasonable, but fellow anti-abortion group Ohio Pro Life Action is on the job. The bill’s new life comes after an ad campaign the group began running on Fox News claiming that “every single day the Senate delays a vote on the heartbeat bill, a school bus full of children’s lives are lost.”

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http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/12/02/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-be-a-woman-in-ohio/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is so disheartening...

Those people just never give up. They are relentless.

How on earth do we stop them?

x(

[niyad]

2. right now, I think the only thing will be a ray that removes them all to their home planet

[Ilsa]

3. Geez. It's the sort of thing that would make me

want to get my uterus scraped every month, just to be sure, if I was still fertile or living in Ohio.

[zbdent]

4. next up ... contraception.

and the Republicans used to so hate Catholics ... but then, the Vatican has more money than God ...

[musette_sf]

5. The Catholics and the Prots, former mortal enemies,

can completely agree on one thing: women are chattel property livestock.

When I was a kid, I was told I would go to Hell for entering any Protestant church.

Now they're BFFs with the fundamentalist Prots, since they can agree on hating women and gays.

[musette_sf]

6. Nope, they never see it as

"a school bus full of living, breathing WOMEN got their lives, hopes, dreams, aspirations, education, careers, and plans back - a school bus full of living, breathing WOMEN who were able to exercise their civil, human and Constitutional rights to choose and decide for themselves when, where, how, and with whom to start or grow their families".

The women NEVER exist in these putrid forced-birther analogies that, in an overpopulated world, are not just sadistic and vicious to the living, breathing female US citizen - but completely idiotic on their face.

[lbrtbell]

7. Here's a better idea for a bill

You can't impose your insane, fetus-worshipping religious beliefs on any woman who has a heartbeat.