Two decisions were made by the US Supreme Court in connection with Ohio's ant-abortion heartbeat bill. But advocates of the said bill are still optimistic and they believe that now is the time to act up.
The controversial heartbeat bill simply would not allow abortion once a fetal heartbeat is perceived. This occur usually during the second month of pregnancy. Any physician who violates the said bill would be charged of felony, would pay a fine and would even be imprisoned. Inclusions of the bill are women who were raped or has a case of incest. The Supreme Court had already set standards with regards to fetus being aborted before reaching viable age.
Christina Hagan, Republican representative of the Alliance and Ron Hood of Ashville was the author of the said bill, she said that the heartbeat bill would challenge the court's ruling during the 1973 Roe v. Wade case were abortion was legalized . It was only last March that this bill was approved after two attempts of filing it last 2012 and 2013.
Arkansas and North Dakota federal court had ruled the bill to be unconstitutional. Despite of the appeals, the Supreme Court rejected the two cases. B. Jessie Hill, associate dean at Case Western Reserve University reiterated that the Supreme Court's ruling on both cases clearly shows that the heartbeat bill is unconstitutional. Though the Ohio state can still push the issue, it would still be against them, he added.
Janet Folger Porter, the director of Faith2Action network and a prolife advocate said that just because the court didn't approved it, doesn't mean that they totally won't. She added that if people wants to get inside the Supreme Court they just have to keep on knocking. She urged her members to post attack videos online asking the integrity of the Republican senators regarding their prolife advocacy. She threatened that if they cannot influence the elected then they might just replace them.
