Ohio now wants to join in on the hot button gambit and make banning abortion a political issue. Now even the state of Ohio wants to tell woman what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.
This is another example of the slippery slope we are on, and how state and local governments are trying to push the religious views of the minority on the majority of its citizens.
A proposal to ban abortion in Ohio under any circumstance is an outrageous attack on women, their families and their doctors, opponents said Tuesday.
Opponents criticized the bill, which is not expected to pass, from the Statehouse steps, ahead of a hearing later Tuesday morning that was expected to draw an overflowing crowd.
The proposal would go further than a South Dakota abortion ban - considered the most restrictive in the United States -- by outlawing abortions even when a woman's life is in danger. Like the South Dakota ban, the Ohio proposal would make no exceptions for rape.
The bill would also make it a felony to transport a woman to another state for an abortion.
"The key to preventing abortion is preventing unintended pregnancy," said Gary Dougherty, executive director of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Ohio.
"If politicians really care about reducing the need for abortion, they should work to pass common sense measures that increase access to birth control and medically accurate sex education," he said. "Laws that criminalize abortion are bad for women's health, bad medicine and bad public policy."
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