Ohio House approves anti-abortion bill that challenges Roe v. Wade ruling

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/28/ohio-house-approves-anti-abortion-bill-that-challenges-roe-v-wade-ruling/

By Reuters
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 -- 8:05 pm

COLUMBUS (Reuters) - The Ohio House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which can be as early as six weeks.

The House voted 54 to 43 for the ban, along party lines, with most Republicans voting in favor.

If enacted, the law would be a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which upheld a woman's right to an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb, usually at 22-24 weeks.

Republican Ohio House Speaker William Batchelder said he knows this bill will face a court challenge.

"We're writing bills for courts," he said.

The bill now goes to the Republican-dominated Ohio Senate.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They want it to go to the Supreme Court.

M-F'ing bastards.

Heartless, useless, stupid.

I am so outraged, and I am so tired of being outraged.

Goddamn it. And them.

:argh:

[spanone]

2. exactly.

i expect one lawsuit after another....chipping away until a choice is gone.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. +1

[w8liftinglady]

5. My thoughts exactly. I forsee lots of home-made abortions.

I'm seeing it right now in Texas.Cutting fucking Planned Parenthood,cutting schools, cutting any resource a woman who has a baby might use to survive.
It is so evil.
So awful.
...and I feel so impotent here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I feel impotent too...

And it makes me really really angry.

How dare they?

I think I'll send Janice Hahn (the dem candidate out here in our 36th House District) some more money. She's running against one of those mouth-breathing Tea baggers.

She has to win.

Has To.

:nuke:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Odd. I never, ever see any women writing such bills. n/t