{"id":26401,"date":"2016-12-14T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=26401"},"modified":"2016-12-13T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T03:37:10","slug":"update-ohios-anti-abortion-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/12\/update-ohios-anti-abortion-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Ohio’s anti-abortion bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Governor_of_Ohio_John_Kasich_at_NH_FITN_2016_03\"<\/a>The Ohio state legislature has passed two abortion bills that Gov. John Kasich has now acted on. \u00a0He refused to sign the \u201cheartbeat bill,\u201d which would have banned abortion after the developing child\u2019s heart begins to beat. \u00a0That can be as early as six weeks, which is before many women even realize they are pregnant. \u00a0Kasich said that bill would certainly have been struck down by the courts. \u00a0That\u2019s probably right, but that the child develops such a universal sign of life so early should surely tell the world something about what even early abortion does, namely, kills a human life.<\/p>\n

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Kasich did sign a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks, joining 15 other states. \u00a0Pro-lifers in Ohio applauded the limit, though I\u2019m not sure what it accomplishes. \u00a0Pro-abortionists are indignant about both bills.<\/p>\n

In other news, here in Oklahoma, the doctor who performs half the abortions in the state was refused hospital admitting privileges, as required by state law. \u00a0So he sued the state. \u00a0He won the case and the law was struck down.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma Board of Health did approve of a measure that would require\u00a0hospitals, schools, and restaurants to post signs in their public restrooms informing pregnant women where they can find help without getting an abortion.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs 20-Week Abortion Limit, Rejects \u2018Heartbeat Bill\u2019 : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a 20-week gestation limit for abortions into law Tuesday, while separately vetoing a measure that would have banned abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectable.<\/p>\n

The so-called heartbeat bill, which Kasich rejected, was considered more vulnerable to legal challenge. Provisions of the measure would have essentially limited the period during which women could get an abortion to about six weeks, when many women don\u2019t even realize they\u2019re pregnant, reports the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Similar measures have faced legal challenges in other states, the news service goes on to say, a fact weighing heavily in Kasich\u2019s veto defense<\/a>. Kasich, himself an abortion-rights opponent, noted bans in two other states had been declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe State of Ohio will be the losing party in that lawsuit and, as the losing party, the State of Ohio will be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to cover the legal fees for the pro-choice activists\u2019 lawyers. Furthermore, such a defeat invites additional challenges to Ohio\u2019s strong legal protections for unborn life,\u201d the Republican governor said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Fifteen other states have 20-week bans, the AP says.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, unlike the so-called heartbeat ban, the 20-week ban had the support of the state\u2019s most prominent anti-abortion-rights group, who praised the governor for signing the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 20-week ban was nationally designed to be the vehicle to end abortion in America,\u201d said Ohio Right to Life<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n

Abortion-rights supporters were quick to decry both bans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Photo by Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ohio state legislature has passed two abortion bills that Gov. John Kasich has now acted on. \u00a0He refused to sign the \u201cheartbeat bill,\u201d which would have banned abortion after the developing child\u2019s heart begins to beat. \u00a0That can be as early as six weeks, which is before many women even realize they are pregnant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[3758,3946,5020,5021],"class_list":["post-26401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-life-issues","tag-anti-abortion-laws","tag-john-kasich","tag-ohios-pro-life-laws","tag-oklahomas-pro-life-laws"],"yoast_head":"\nUpdate on Ohio's anti-abortion bills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ohio state legislature has passed two abortion bills that Gov. 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