Ohio GOP Is Coming For A Woman's Right To Choose

I don’t know if it was the confirmation of party boy, drunkard, sexual predator, Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, or if it was the Pink Wave that swept into Congress earlier this month, but something has set the OHIO GOP into panic mode; and by panic mode, I mean, they have literally gone batshit crazy.

Last week, the Ohio state house passed a bill that to ban abortions at six weeks, a move that basically bans most abortions since performing the procedure before a pregnancy shows up on an ultrasound, which happens at about six weeks, is not medically recommended.

During debate over that bill to legislate women’s healthcare, an actual woman, albeit a Republican woman, and therefore a wingnut, Ohio state Representative Christina Hagan brought her infant twins onto the floor to shame women who aren't mothers about their alleged selfishness, saying:

"Motherhood isn't easy but it's necessary."

And then she introduced a bill, a law, legislation, to make motherhood mandatory. Naturally, Christina Hagan, in her attempt to paint women who choose abortion as lazy and selfish, doesn’t bear any responsibility in being truthful at all. While she claims that childbirth is needed to ensure the continuation of the human race, she failed to mention that the majority of women who choose abortion are already mothers; and those who aren’t mothers are often planning to have children in the future, unless of course people like Christina Hagan and Ohio have their way and force women to have babies.

But why not go after men? Why not find the men who got these women pregnant and force them to raise those kids; force them to be fathers? Oh yeah, I forgot, men. And women like Christina Hagan.

And while Hagan’s bill will more than likely never pass, keep in mind that after passing that anti-abortion bill, Ohio legislators are looking at a new bill that would reclassify fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as "persons" in the criminal code making women who choose abortion murderers.

Salon