How Ohio abortion ban bill could play out given conflict with state constitution
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Reps. Levi Dean and Jonathan Newman introduced the “Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act,” which would legally recognize personhood from the moment of fertilization and ban abortion. Under the bill, having an abortion could lead to homicide charges. The proposed ban only grants exceptions for “life-saving procedures” on pregnant women and spontaneous miscarriages.
A Christian organization, End Abortion Ohio, proposed the effort to lawmakers. President Austin Beigel said the group worked alongside a constitutional lawyer with the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, a national nonprofit, to craft the bill.