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Monday, June 27, 2011
UPDATED WITH MORE REACTION - House set to vote Tuesday on “Heartrbeat” bill, two other bills to limit abortions
The Ohio House Tuesday is set to vote on the “Heartbeat” bill, House Bill 125, which would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Votes on two other bills to restrict abortions also are set for the House.
House Bill 78 would ban abortions after 20 weeks. House Bill 79 would prohibit coverage of non-therapeutic abortions in insurance plans under the state exchange created by the new federal health care law.
Janet Folger Porter, president of Faith2Action and a key backer of the “Heartbeat” bill called the vote the “most important vote in Ohio history.”
“We have never been closer to protecting babies with beating hearts,” Porter said.
Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, said that passage of the package of bills would make “Ohio the most dangerous state in which to be pregnant.”
“Tomorrow’s going to be a really dark day for women’s health in Ohio,” said Copeland.
On Tuesday morning, about 50 opponents of the bill rallied outside the Statehouse.
Rep. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, told reporters not to call it a “pro-abortion” gathering.
She said it was a “trust women” and “pro-womens’ rights rally.”
While the Ohio Right to Life Society does not support the “Heartbeat” bill because of concerns about consequences from legal challenges, Linda Theis, a former president of the group, Tuesday released a statement praising the measure:
“It is this day that marks the beginning of the end of the killing of our innocent unborn in Ohio.”
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