According to RH
Reality Check, with the end of the Ohio 2012 legislative session women of
Ohio breathed a sigh of relief as the final attempted to pass the “Heartbeat”
ban (making abortion illegal in Ohio) was blocked by Speaker Tom Niehaus.
However, Niehaus is out going.
2013 looks very different for the “Heartbeat”
bill. New members of Ohio legislative body haven’t even been sworn in, and the
Speaker Bill Batchelder is claiming he is ready to move on the bill. Batchelder
is super excited about this bill. I guess he’s really looking forward to that
legal battle. In 2011, Batchelder told Reuters
that “We’re writing bills for courts.” Of course, even the anti-choice
community in Ohio and the senate have refused to move on the bill so fingers
crossed this goes nowhere.
Of course then there is an article
on Plunderbund
that makes me think we should burn Ohio to the ground. Just kidding, mostly
kidding. Personhood Ohio is getting backing from Personhood USA. Just to be
clear these people don’t care about all persons just fertilized eggs, not the
women carrying them (or as I’m sure one day they will be called incubators).
According to Facebook (yeah, I
know, eye roll), Dr. Patrick Johnston said this message will go out Friday
(1/4/2013) to 55,000 pro-life Ohioans:
“This is Dr. Patrick Johnston, a
family physician and the director of Personhood Ohio, and I’d like to put
$5,000 case in your hands for helping us protecting every baby under Ohio law!
The failure of the Heartbeat Bill has shown us that the Ohio legislature will
not do its duty and protect preborn Ohioans from death by abortion. Well, we
can bypass the corrupt legislature and take it straight to the people by ballot
initiative. Will you pray with us that every one of these babies will be
protected? If you would like to help us save these children—and win $5,000—please
press 1 now to be directed to a Personhood Ohio volunteer, or visit Personhood
Ohio-dot-com. Thank you so much and God bless you this New Year!”
There is so much here. Apparently,
this family physician is uninsured, which is awesome, a Christian radio host,
which explains the prayer stuff, anti-LGBT and Operation Save American (don’t Google
them) activist, and in his free time he runs a website
where he yells about “sodomite activists,” public schools, public employees,
and how to keep President Obama from taking our guns. He also writes what
Plunderbund calls, “fantasy fanfiction novels in which armed, anti-abortion
activists lead a revolution against the federal government." I know, this man is
my new best friend forever. If I only lived there and was independently
wealthy, then I could literally take my heathen self over there and talk to him
about being an idiot.
There are so many things wrong with
this guy and his pseudo faith. I guess the major thing I don’t get, and I studied
Christianity for sixteen years, he is anti-choice because the babies don’t
deserve to die, but anyone who disagrees with him does? Ok crazy man, keep your
guns, but stay the hell out of my vag.
