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How radioactive is SB 5? It’s so radioactive that Josh Mandel feels more comfortable putting himself at the right of the Ohio Right-to-Life in endorsing HB 125, the so-called “heartbeat” abortion ban bill, even though he’s taken no public stand on SB 5. Mandel has all but announced that he is the likely GOP candidate to take on Sherrod Brown’s Senate seat next year reveals as his first public policy as a candidate a bill so extreme on abortion that the Ohio Right to Life says they cannot endorse it because it is so patently unconstitutional.
This shows you what [...]
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Hearings could take from four to six weeks, Wachtmann said, before a committee vote to send the bill to the House floor.
It was three weeks today that the substantive SB 5 bill was unveiled and hearings began. And it’s already passed committee and is expected to pass the Senate during its session starting at 1:30.
That means that the Senate will spend less time on a 500-page bill that reverses nearly 30 years of Ohio’s collective bargaining law than the House committee will spend on a twenty-seven page [...]
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Two young mothers were given ultrasounds in a packed room at the Statehouse as part of a House committee meeting Wednesday. The heartbeat of a fetus at 15 weeks gestation was easily detected. The heartbeat in a fetus of nine weeks gestation was difficult to detect.
Is that like taking the Fifth? In what was staged as political stagecraft to pander to the Pro-Life crowd, Chairman Lynn Wachtmann unknowingly revealed the other fatal flaw of his “heartbeat” abortion ban besides the fact that even Ohio Right to Life recognizes it as being certainly [...]
Full Story... →Channel 4 in Columbus:
A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected.
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An aide to committee Chairman Lynn Wachtmann said a pregnant woman will be brought before the committee and an ultrasound image of her uterus will be projected onto a screen. The heartbeat of the fetus will be visible in color.
Well, at least the Republicans aren’t taking a serious issue like abortion and turning it into a sideshow carnival act of political grandstanding. Incidentially,
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Full Story... →Modern already thoroughly covered the abortion issues that have been floating around Ohio the past few days including Ohio Right to Life’s support for certain anti-abortion bills (and lack of support for one specifically unconstitutional one) along with their attempts to “petition the Governor to install pharmacists with conscience and pro-life convictions to the Board of Pharmacy”.
But reading about Ohio Right to Life in each one of his posts just made me realize (again) what a bunch of hypocrites anti-abortion groups like this can be. If you don’t want to stick around while I vent I [...]
Full Story... →Story was on the Columbus Dispatch’s “Daily Briefing” blog:
Michael Gonidakis wants to ban all abortions, but the executive director of Ohio Right to Life knows it doesn’t help his cause to fight for bills that he says have no chance of being upheld by the federal courts.
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"Unfortunately the court has ruled that states can place limitations on post-viability abortions, but pre-viability there can be zero restrictions," Gonidakis said, adding that the current makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court, with two recent appointments from President Obama, would not reverse that.
"We certainly don’t want the courts [...]
Full Story... →One of the odder areas where the Ohio Senate Republicans decided that Governor Strickland’s appointments should be rejected for no other reason than they were Strickland’s appointments was the Ohio Board of Pharmacy.
Although most Statehouse observers understood the political motivations behind Kasich wanting to have the full slate on the Casino Commission, BWC, and the Board of Education, more obscure entities which are viewed as typically apolitical like the Ohio Pharmacy Board struck people as rather odd.
Now we know why they did it. Remember outgoing Senate President Bill Harris said that the GOP would block any appointment [...]
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Before the 2010 elections, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine caused a stir in his party when he commented that the party needed to focus on economic issues and move away from social “hot button” issues that had dominated the party’s dialogue, pumped up its base, but at the expense of the appealing to the middle.
Regardless of the social conservatives uproar in response to his comments, the reality is that the 2010 campaign largely played off DeWine’s viewpoint. None of the GOP’s statewide candidates, from Rob Portman to John Kasich and down the [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch reported today on Rep. Lorraine Fende (D- Willowick)’s bill to “ban” late-term abortion:
House Bill 7 would ban abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy, or past 22 weeks if a test determines a fetus is "viable" and can live outside the womb. It contains an exception if the physical health of the woman is at serious risk but specifies that "does not include a condition related to the woman’s mental health."
"I had a conversation with someone quite some time ago that right now, you could be 81/2 months’ pregnant and have an [...]
Full Story... →A guest post from Kelley Bell, courtesy of The Huffington Post:
A firestorm is coming. Can you feel it? The women of this country are fuming, like steam in a pressure cooker the timer is about to go off, and these women are going to explode.
After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women in the pro-choice movement because [...]
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You call this progress? The 1st 100 days of the 129th Ohio General Assembly
The Ohio House Republicans ran in 2010 on job creation. They even had an entire platform of job-related bills they said they’d pass. As they self-congratulate themselves over their first 100 days in power, why is that 11 of the fifteen bills they highlight passing have nothing to do with jobs? And why did they spend more time on abortion than the budget or job creation?
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