Life Advocacy League

By Susan Page, USA TODAY
COLUMBUS, Ohio Two hours after South Dakota Gov.Mike Rounds signed an abortion ban last month, NARAL Pro-Choice America blasted an e-mail to itssupporters: "Is your state next?"

The South Dakota legislation and the abortion rights group's warning are early skirmishes in a battle over what states would do if the landmark Roe v. Wade decision were overturned though both sides concede that may never happen.

If it does, a fight that for three decades has focused on nine members of the Supreme Court would be waged instead among more than 7,000 legislators in 50 state capitals.

"Now is the time to get moving on this in Ohio," says Tom Brinkman, a state legislator who has introduced a bill to ban almost all abortions. Meanwhile, Kellie Copeland of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio is braced. "Our supporters feel the fight is coming back to the
states," she says.

Source: The Post Online (Athens University independent student-run daily newspaper)

Proposed bill seeks to ban abortion in Ohio

by Chris Yonker
Staff Writer
christopher.a.yonker@ohiou.edu


A bill introduced by Rep. Tom Brinkman, R-Mount Lookout, would ban all abortions in Ohio and prohibit women from traveling to other states in order to receive abortions.

The bill would not target those receiving the abortions, rather the doctors and those who may facilitate crossing into another state to receive an abortion, said Kara Joseph, a legislative aide. Doctors and facilitators both, she said, would be charged with a fifth degree felony if found guilty.

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PRESS RELEASE


Pro-Family Network stands unified with other pro-life organizations against the practice of abortion and the lie that a woman's right to privacy gives her the right to terminate the life of her unborn child.

Pro-Family Network is not secretly plotting to make pregnancy mandatory for all fertile females, as the pro-abortion lobby seems to suggest.

The right to abortion is an invention of the court. There is no reference to it anywhere in the Constitution, and it can't be reasonably extrapolated from the principles enshrined in our national charter.

Statement of Barry Sheets
Government Affairs Director
Citizens for Community Values
January 18, 2006
In support of House Bill 228


Citizens for Community Values, officially associated with Focus on the Family as their Ohio Family Policy Council, stands in suport of legislation authored by Representative Tom Brinkman of the 34th Ohio House District which would bring full protections to all Ohio citizens, both born and preborn.

Every preborn child, from fertilization on, is a human being who is entitled to both social and legal protection. House Bill 228, which would put Ohio on record as a state where innocent life is valued and protected, is legislation whose time is come.