State Rep. Stephanie Howse Unleashes on an Outrageous Abortion Bill and the Destructive Legislating

State Rep. Stephanie Howse Unleashes on an Outrageous Abortion Bill and the Destructive Legislating of Ohio Republicans

by Sam Allard


Ohio's House Bill 413 is one of the most outlandish pieces of abortion legislation pursued to date in the United States. Like Republican lawmakers elsewhere, those in Ohio are salivating at the notion of overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision legalizing abortion.

Medical professionals, scholars and constitutional experts are baffled at the lengths to which Ohio's legislators have gone in pursuit of their fringe partisan agenda. HB413, for example, includes a provision that would force doctors to re-implant ectopic pregnancies — a situation that results when fertilized eggs attach to something other than a woman's uterus. This procedure is medically impossible, yet doctors who refuse to perform it, under the law, would be guilty of "abortion murder."

"[HB413] is absolutely the most extreme abortion ban you could imagine, it is undoubtedly unconstitutional and frankly in a lot of ways I think it makes Ohio look extreme and foolish," CWRU law professor Jessie Hill told NewsChannel5 last week. "You can't find a single medical expert to support the idea that there is this treatment, a viable treatment that is described in the bill."

Hill and others noted the irony of a bill that purports to be "pro-life" recommending the death penalty in aggravated cases of so-called abortion murder.

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