Sunday, November 18th, 2018
Stephan: Well, the election is over and White Republican men are back to work trying to make sure that uppity women don't forget their subordinate place in Ohio.
This report describes a bill specifically designed to make abortion functionally impossible for an Ohio woman to obtain, and incoming governor Mike DeWine has already said he will sign the bill. Ostensibly this legislation is designed to protect the unborn but, of course, that is a lie. Ohio has a miserable social safety network to protect infants and young children.
This is entirely about controlling women, and please let's not invoke Jesus and the Bible, which doesn't even contain the word abortion. This is about the need of a certain group of White men, and a small group of their submissive women, to control females and keep them second class. All I can say is: People of Ohio you have no one to blame but yourselves for the misery that is coming. If I were a woman I wouldn't live in Ohio.
Ohio Capitol
The Ohio House of Representatives this week passed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country — one that would penalize doctors for performing an abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected and pose a potential challenge to Roe v. Wade.
A fetal heartbeat can be detected by an ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, a time during which most women are unaware they are pregnant.
Under the bill, approved Thursday by a vote of 60 to 35, performing an abortion on a fetus with a heartbeat would result in a fifth-degree felony, which is punishable in Ohio by up to one year in prison and a $2,500 fine. The bill now heads to the Ohio Senate.
The measure includes no exceptions for rape or incest. Doctors may, however, make an exception during a medical emergency or if an abortion would save a woman’s life.
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“I will sign the bill,” he said. “I believe that the essential function of government is to protect the most vulnerable members of society.”
Yet 25% of American children live in poverty.