Ohio Republicans to Introduce Bill Banning, Criminalizing Abortion

Republican state legislators who oppose abortions are planning to introduce legislation on Wednesday to abolish nearly all abortion procedures in Ohio, ABC News reported. The proposed legislation would also make most abortions a crime.

State Reps. Levi Dean, R-Xenia, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, are spearheading the effort while working with anti-abortion activists with the group End Abortion Ohio.

One of the leading paragraphs in a draft version of the bill indicates it would “acknowledge the sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, which should be equally protected from the beginning of biological development to natural death.”

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