Ohio Legislature Introduces Texas Style Pro-Life Bill
The Ohio legislature has proposed a sweeping pro-life bill with an enforcement mechanism similar to Texas's recently enacted law, empowering private citizens to sue anyone who "knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion." While the Texas law, which took effect in September after the Supreme Court declined to review it, prohibits abortions after a heartbeat is detected, the Ohio version appears to outlaw helping an individual seeking any abortion, regardless of gestation time. Sponsored by Republican State Representatives Jena Powell and Thomas Hall, along with 33 Republican co-sponsors, the 2363 Act proposed on Tuesday also forbids paying for an abortion through insurance, according to the language of the legislation. Read more...