Depending on who you ask, the heartbeat bill is no joke. Gov. Kasich vetoed a similar measure in 2016 but now the republican senate has enough majority to potentially overturn a veto. Many republican lawmakers are hoping to use ohio to bring abortion back to the federal supreme court and overturn Roe v Wade. This is all in the last article I linked from the New York Times btw
So if the first article sounds too clickbait-y for you just know that ohio is actually proposing, and has a good chance of passing strict anti-abortion laws 🙃
I am going to rip ohio apart with my bear hands
I reblogged a post the other day talking about this exact same bargaining trick pulled by exremists.
Of course, they know they can’t actually get motherhood to be mandatory, but, by making it look like that’s what they really want, they make ANY degree of control over our reproductive health seem like a “fair compromise between both sides” and REASONABLE in comparison.