Ohio's GOP lawmakers want to ban abortions – a likely violation of federal law.
A bill from two Republican lawmakers, introduced Monday, would ban all abortions in Ohio. Doctors could be charged with murder or sued for the wrongful deaths of aborted fetuses, according to the proposal. Kentucky lawmakers are considering a similar ban.
In recent years, Ohio lawmakers have limited abortions by restricting them to earlier in a pregnancy or banning them after a diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Most of these efforts took aim at Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ensured access to most abortions. Some of the new Ohio laws have faced legal challenges. But none take on abortion as directly as the proposal introduced this week.
Opponents of the bill fear it could charge doctors with murder, punishable by life in prison or the death penalty.
"Anti-choice extremists from the Ohio Statehouse to the White House are lining up their dominoes to topple Roe v. Wade and punish those who seek or provide abortion care," said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, in a statement.
So why do it? Simple.
Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, said he knows a federal court could find his bill unconstitutional. But that decision could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider abortion access.
"Obviously, Roe v. Wade could be revisited," Hood said.
So many of these anti-choice zealots want to go down in history as passing the law that reaches the US Supreme Court becoming the basis for overturning Roe. They want that place in history more than life itself, it seems.
This won't be that bill, but one of these days and soon it will happen. We had the chance to stop this in 2016 but of course all the people who said "What difference would it make" or "There's no difference between Trump and Clinton" made that not happen.
The butcher's bill on that is coming sooner rather than later.
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