Legislators in Ohio have today passed a bill banning abortion after a fetus\u2019s heartbeat is detected, approximately six weeks after conception.<\/p>\n
The Heartbeat Bill has no exceptions \u2013 even in cases of rape or incest.<\/p>\n
Most pregnant women are not aware that they have conceived until around two months after doing so.<\/p>\n
After being approved in the Republican-dominated state, the bill will now make its way to anti-abortion Governer John Kasich, who will have 10 days to either sign or veto it.<\/p>\n
If it becomes a law, doctors who perform an abortion after detection will be guilty of a fifth degree felony.<\/p>\n
The only way an abortion would be allowed, was if there was risk of death or a \u2018serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.\u2019<\/p>\n
The American Civil Liberties Union has spoken out confirming that they will challenge the bill in court if it becomes a law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legislators in Ohio have today passed a bill banning abortion after a fetus\u2019s heartbeat is detected, approximately six weeks after conception. The Heartbeat Bill has no exceptions \u2013 even in cases of rape or incest. Most pregnant women are not aware that they have conceived until around two months after doing so. After being approved in the Republican-dominated state, the bill will now make its way to anti-abortion Governer John Kasich, who will have 10 days to either sign or veto it. If it becomes a law, doctors who perform an abortion after detection will be guilty of a fifth degree felony. The only way an abortion would be allowed, was if there was risk of death or a \u2018serious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}