Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortions at First Detection of Fetal Heartbeat…
As we all know the left gets squeamish when a baby is described as a (gasp) life form when it’s still in the womb.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — 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.”
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at 4:49 pm | 
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Oh be still my heart!
Talk about Priceless & Precious!!
This makes my DAY….thank you, thank you, thank you ~
This sounds like a great start with the heart!
Time to start calling pro-abortion absolutists what they are: prenatal science deniers.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/02/liberals-are-science-deniers-when-it-comes-to-the-unborn-a-heartbeat-does-not-mean-life.html
Throw the “denier” claim right back at them.
Unique DNA + Heartbeat = NOT THE MOTHER’S BODY…
Science is on Life’s side..
Finally, the Right is doing things right. This is a chess game and the right to life folks have finally engaged their Queen. Can you imagine debating/arguing about stopping a beating heart? Gee, let’s send these folks some donation money?
Makes me proud to be an Ohioan.
While I’m 100% pro-choice, I’m also 100% in support of this bill.
I am absolutely in favor of the right for a woman to terminate a clump of cells she does not want in her body – but not a baby. As a pro-choicer this is the first real step I’ve seen to drawing a definitive line in the sand between a miscarriage and a murder.
About time!
I’m glad to see states making headway with these type of bills. Such as this and the one where a mother has to see the ultrasound…you can’t look at that and say that isn’t a human.
Come on Governor John Kasich and get behind Rep. Wachtmann and Mrs.
Porter and make the state of Ohio and America proud by winning this one
for the precious lives of our unborn children so they can experience the glory
of life and happiness that is their God given rights…..
This glory would be to God and the Children and the free….
God bless all our children…..
Go Ohio!!!!
Beautiful…………. can’t wait to see the libs squirm like worms over this one.
Can anyone here, including Zip keep an eye on this? I will too but in case I miss it I want to follow this story and see if they really pass this.
OK, folks, next question on this – how is the heartbeat detected? What equipment is used? Who calibrates it? Do you see what I am saying here? Is a second opinion sought? It’s not a crazy argument given the militant attitude of the abortion industry.
Don’t want to rain on the parade. I’m 100% pro-life, but I think this will be found unconstitutional by SCOTUS. Roe v. Wade says state can’t interfere in first trimester.
In any other time, what we’ve allowed to be done to viable human beings in the womb would have been considered murder – or in the very least, manslaughter (which is hardly fitting because it means murder by accident). Those that have been aborted and continue to hang onto life but fail after being thrown into a garbage/hazmat bag, should be full-on murder one.
If you’re too stupid to learn how to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, please have yourself sterilized. It isn’t that hard.
I’am with Dia.girl on this one, this makes my day, this madness has got to stop. Have you ever asked a lib,”would you have rather been aborted?” And I’am going with Iron Maiden on this too…some serious questions need to be addressed.
FANTASTIC!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
This from someone who has been married for almost 20 years and still no baby. Where’s MY choice???? Why does it cost me 1,000′s to adopt but only 55 dollars to kill one if I wanted to?
55 DOLLARS IN COLUMBUS! Trust me I called and asked.
WHAT?
NO NO NO
I have no fear that Gov. Kasich won’t support this. Anyone see a connection between Wilmington/their public reliance on God/possibly being the first state to succeed in this?
God Lord! What a capital idea! It will probably not happen or get shoot down if it does but God bless the lot of them for trying. And if Ohio enacts this, God bless Ohio.
Mountain Lawyer says:
“Don’t want to rain on the parade. I’m 100% pro-life, but I think this will be found unconstitutional by SCOTUS. Roe v. Wade says state can’t interfere in first trimester.”
You’re probably correct on that assesment, but I look at it as a potential first battle of a campaign to eliminate this travesty against life called abortion on demand. The idea is to make abortion an issue, and if I’m reading this blog right, it’s the one issue that seems to have the most common ground among conservatives. I think we can at least try to make the Republican nominee reflect that one issue most of us agree on, opposition to abortion on demand. Even if it’s a damned RINO. The one principal reason I was able to pull the lever for McCain was he’s Pro-Life, Obama is Pro-Death. And if by some miracle he/she beats Obama, we are far more likely to get a Pro-Life nominee for the next SCOTUS vacancy.
Mountain Lawyer – you may be right – BUT it is high time to change that rationale. It’s a life for certain if there is a heartbeat. Just because a prior ruling was made doesn’t mean it is okay to stop a beating heart. This will hopefully open the door to a new ruling.
Ohio, show America we no longer will allow the murder of innocent life.