Posted on 12/28/2018 8:09:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ohio's "heartbeat bill," which would have prohibited killing unborn children with a detectable heartbeat, went down in flames on Thursday after the Senate failed by one vote to override Gov. Kasich's heartless veto of the bill.
The bill passed both chambers earlier this month — the House by a comfortable majority and the Senate 18-13 — but Kasich followed through on his promise to veto the bill. In Ohio, a three-fifths majority is required to override a veto, which meant that two additional votes were needed in the Senate.
The Ohio House voted earlier today to override Kasich's veto 61-28, but the measure came up one vote short in the Senate, which voted 19-13 against the override. Sen. Frank LaRose, who was absent for the vote on the bill earlier this month, voted to override, but GOP Sen. Bill Beagle, who voted for the heartbeat bill, inexplicably defected, crossing the aisle to side with Democrats, Kasich, and Planned Parenthood, all of whom had campaigned vigorously against protecting the lives of unborn children. Beagle was joined by four Republicans — John Eklund, Matt Dolan, Stephanie Kunze, and Gayle Manning — to block the override attempt
Passage of Sub HB 258 would mean that "no person shall knowingly and purposefully perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of the unborn human individual the pregnant woman is carrying and whose fetal heartbeat has been detected." Doctors who violate the law would be guilty of a fifth-degree felony. There are no penalties in the bill for women who choose to kill their babies. The law, if passed, would allow exceptions for procedures that are "designed or intended to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent a serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman." That language ensures that doctors would not be able to flaut the law by claiming a pregnancy would threaten the mental health of the mother.
The Senate stripped from the bill a requirement that a woman seeking an abortion must have a transvaginal ultrasound performed — which can detect a heartbeat as early as 5 1/2 weeks — in order to determine the gestational age of the child. The amended version requires only an abdominal ultrasound, which usually can detect a heartbeat at around 6-7 weeks gestation.
The language of the bill, which had 53 co-sponsors in the House and nine in the Senate, explains that a fetal heartbeat "has become a key medical predictor that an unborn human individual will reach live birth." Cardiac activity, the bill says, "begins at a biologically identifiable moment in time, normally when the fetal heart is formed in the gestational sac." The life-affirming language codifies into law the humanity of unborn children, much to the credit of Ohio lawmakers.
Citizens for Community Values, an enthusiastic supporter of the heartbeat bill, lamented the failure to override Kasich's veto and blasted Beagle for betraying the pro-life movement.
“After a monumental effort by the pro-life community to override Gov. Kasich’s veto of the Heartbeat Bill (HB 258) in the Ohio House, Ohio was on the brink of enacting this life-saving bill. Yet at the last moment, one Ohio Senator flipped his vote, and the Heartbeat Bill came up 1 vote short in the State Senate," CCV president Aaron Baer said in a written statement.
"Senator Bill Beagle (R-Montgomery, Preble, and Montgomery) voted to give lawmakers like himself a pay raise, but not to save thousands of Ohio lives every year," Baer wrote. “It is inexcusable how Beagle could vote for the Heartbeat bill in the Senate Health committee, and on the Senate floor the first time, then change his vote at the last minute. He also gave no warning to the bill’s sponsors or proponents that he changed his mind.”
Baer thanked Senate President Larry Obhoff, Speaker Ryan Smith, and the bill's sponsors, Reps. Christina Hagan and Ron Hood, for their support.
“The pro-life movement will carry on for another day. Thankfully, Ohio has true pro-life champions coming into the Governor’s office in the DeWine/Husted administration. Our call to state legislative leadership is to not delay in 2019. The times are urgent, and we must enact this bill as soon as possible,” said Baer.
The current heartbeat bill is now dead, and in order for the measure to be considered again, it would have to be reintroduced and make its way through the long process of committee hearings, floor votes, and reconciliation. Mike DeWine, the incoming governor, has vowed to sign the bill if it comes to his desk.
Baer vowed that CCV would to continue the fight to protect unborn children. "We are not going anywhere until the job is done.”
Kasich is a sick, heartless liar......calling himself pro life.....what a tool
“By their works ye shall know them...”
The unborn baby is killed because he has not yet received a name and because no one has yet seen his face. He is considered a mass of cells, as feminazis like to say.
It’s no wonder that our birthrate is declining and we have to bring in migrants for the labor force.
I don’t necessarily blame the GOP for this - they did try and Kasich, moron that he is - blew it all up because he, like McCain was, is a Democrat operative.
Kasich is complicit in the mass murder of babies.
Politicians say one thiMg to get elected and then stab the people that elected them in the back. We really need to clean house.
I simply point out to anyone who will listen that we can outlaw abortion now, or it will be outlawed in the future when this country is filled with Mexican Muslims.
What do you expect?
GOP Inc must be destroyed and replaced.
This action is in accordance with the current law of the land, no matter how despicable.
“Mike DeWine, the incoming governor, has vowed to sign the bill if it comes to his desk.”
Is the next Ohio Legislature “Republican enough” to bring the bill back?
Now I REALLY want him to run 3rd party in 2020. I have no doubt he would attract more D votes from all those suburban never-Trumpers than R votes.
And he did it because he's going to run for President in 2020 while claiming to support a "woman's right to choose murder her baby" because Roe v. Wade is "settled law."
Beagle, who voted for the heartbeat bill, inexplicably defected, crossing the aisle to side with Democrats, Kasich, and Planned Parenthood, all of whom had campaigned vigorously against protecting the lives of unborn children. Beagle was joined by four Republicans — John Eklund, Matt Dolan, Stephanie Kunze, and Gayle Manning — to block the override attempt
Could it be that they are representing their constituents?
I don’t agree with it, but that means if you are in Ohio, you need different reps.
All schools of Muslim law accept that abortion is permitted if continuing the pregnancy would put the mother’s life in real danger. This is the only reason accepted for abortion after 120 days of the pregnancy.
Different schools of Muslim law hold different views on whether any other reasons for abortion are permitted, and at what stage of pregnancy if so.
Some schools of Muslim law permit abortion in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy, while others only permit it in the first 7 weeks.
However, even those scholars who would permit early abortion in certain cases still regard abortion as wrong, but do not regard it as a punishable wrong. The more advanced the pregnancy, the greater the wrong.
The Qur’an does not explicitly refer to abortion but offers guidance on related matters. Scholars accept that this guidance can properly be applied to abortion.
We have always needed migrants in the fields. That hasn’t changed in 200 years.
The “family” hardly exists any longer. No one stays together any longer to have babies.
Exactly.
Local, state and national politicians are only interested in what is be$$$$$t for their constituent$$$$.
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