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Ohio ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill heads to governor’s desk

Dec 8, 2016

Today from the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected is headed to the governor’s desk.

Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled state House voted to approve the so-called “heartbeat bill” Tuesday night after it passed in the Senate earlier in the day, clearing the way for what would be one of the nation’s most stringent abortion restrictions.

The legislation would prohibit most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy after the first detectable heartbeat.

Gov. John Kasich, an abortion opponent, has previously voiced concerns about whether such a move would be constitutional. He has not said whether he plans to sign the measure. Read on at the Associated Press…

And this from VOX Sentences:

The Ohio state legislature has passed a bill that would ban abortion as soon as the fetus’s heartbeat is detected — something that usually happens within six weeks of conception. [Vox / Emily Crockett]
Gov. John Kasich has 10 days to decide whether to sign the bill, or roughly a quarter of the time the bill gives women to decide whether to keep their pregnancies.
Ohio legislators had rejected the bill before, since they assumed it wouldn’t withstand a court challenge. The Supreme Court has pretty much rejected “heartbeat bills” before. [Mother Jones / Hannah Levintova]
But with a new president — and that new president’s promise to nominate a Supreme Court justice who’s opposed to Roe v. Wade — Republicans in Ohio felt the winds were blowing in their direction. [CNN / Max Blau, Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley, and Jason Hanna]
But they might be alone in that assessment. Even Ohio Right to Life doesn’t think the bill has a chance. [Cleveland.com / Jackie Borchardt]
That’s because there are still five votes on the Court for striking down state abortion restrictions, as articulated in June in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt — a case that some pro-choice advocates think could be used to strike down even more moderate state restrictions. [Vox / Emily Crockett]
That’s not to say that the Supreme Court won’t have a five-vote majority against Roe before Trump leaves office. But it will take at least two nominations from Trump (or even three), not just the one he’ll be able to make when he’s inaugurated in 2017. [FiveThirtyEight / Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux]

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