Before many women know they’re pregnant
More of that cis privilege that women are so loaded with: a bill criminalizing most abortion is now law in Ohio.
The six-week abortion ban known as the “heartbeat bill” is now law in Ohio. That makes Ohio the sixth state in the nation to attempt to outlaw abortions at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill Thursday afternoon, just one day after it passed the Republican-led General Assembly. The law is slated to take effect in 90 days, unless blocked by a federal judge.
Now known as the “Human Rights Protection Act,” SB 23 outlaws abortions as early as five or six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant. It is one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.
Once they realize they’re pregnant, it’s too late to stop being pregnant. Hahahahaha got you there, women! Sucks to be you. Shoulda thought of that before you decided to be born female, huh?
“The essential function of government is to protect the most vulnerable among us, those who don’t have a voice,” DeWine said as he signed the bill.
Is that right? Then let’s save flies, mosquitoes, bacteria, mildew spores, bed bugs. They don’t have a voice! It’s up to us to protect them!
Also note that DeWine is never going to be forced to carry a pregnancy to term.
The Ohio Senate originally passed the bill last month. The Republican-led House Health Committee then made several changes before sending it to the House floor, where it passed by party-line vote.
Beyond changing the name, the Ohio House version allows for the use of transvaginal ultrasounds to detect a fetal heartbeat even earlier in a pregnancy.
The bill institutes criminal penalties for doctors who violate the law. Doctors who perform abortions after detecting a heartbeat would face a fifth-degree felony and up to a year in prison. The legislation also allows the State Medical Board to take disciplinary actions against doctors found in violation and impose penalties of up to $20,000.
It will probably go to the Supreme Court. The forced-pregnancy views are the majority there.
Should he have a mistress, I wonder if his stance on this issue wavers…
Of course not. It’s her problem, not his.
Ophelia: That’s actually too generous. He’d most likely arrange for a trip to some country that allows abortions, discretely, of course.
Freemage, that’s exactly what I was thinking. The wealthy men who pass our laws can send their women to Europe to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and it will just look like a vacation.
The person who makes the decision should be the person who has to live with the consequences of it. All else is just power for its own sake. And we know where that leads.