Quote of the Day

[CN: extreme hostility to autonomy, violence]

Rep. Lynn Watchmann (R-Eprehensible), author of HB 125, Ohio's "Heartbeat Bill":

“I would remind you the real war on women are the abortionists, the slayers of those young babies, the young girls in the mother’s womb who take their lives. That is the real war on women.” , in response to the idea that the bill is part of a war on women.

You see, in 2011 Ohio Watchmann attempted to pass the now infamous "Heartbeat Bill". Back then the GOP even scheduled two embyro "witnesses" to "testify" for the bill (it didn't quite work as planned). Eventually the legislation stalled in the Ohio Senate after passing the House. Last November, Senate President Tom Niehaus said the bill may get "another look" and that "a substitute bill is being prepared".

That substitute bill is now being reintroduced.

In addition to the fetal heartbeat test, State Rep. Christina Hagan said the new bill mandates inspections of abortion clinics.

“We will now have inspectors in our abortion clinics to ensure that the regulations we’re putting in place, as far as fetal heartbeat detection goes, are being held up,” Hagan said.

This time around, Hagan said the bill also includes a commission to study ways to improve adoption in Ohio.

As with before, Ohio Right to Life does not support this legislation.

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Hey Watchmann:

Detecting cardiac activity does not a viable pregnancy make. For one. Your asinine legislation is unconstitutional. Shut up.

Also? Effectively banning--because that's what this would do--a legal, necessary medical procedure because you don't like it is, in fact, a hostile act of aggression against the autonomy and agency of anyone who wants and needs to access it. You spouting off that it isn't is such disingenuous bullshit that I'm almost surprised you weren't struck by lightening on the spot by the universe-at-large for sheer offensive lying asshattery.

And you want to talk "abortionists" and war, you willfully ignorant fuck? Ok, let's do that.

Just yesterday a federal judge ruled that threatening people who provide health care via doing abortion procedures is, in fact, just fine.

From 1977 to 2011, there have been:

218 arsons and bombings
99 attempted arson or bombing
656 bomb threats
191 incidents of assault and battery
420 death threats
4 kidnappings
15,062 incidents of hate mail or hate phone calls

Last year in 2012: a Pensacola, FL, clinic was burned down, a Wisconsin clinic was attacked with homemade bomb, two clinics in Georgia were set on fire, a clinic in Louisiana was set ablaze. Those are "just" the fires.

Dr. David Gunn was murdered in 1993.
In 1993, Dr. Tiller was shot but not killed.
In 1994, Dr. John Bayard Britton and his escort, James H. Barrett, were assassinated.
In 1994, Dr. Garson Romalis was shot but not killed.
In 1995, Dr. Hugh Short was shot and killed.
In 1997, Dr. Jack Fainman was shot but not killed, the shooter was a suspect in an unnamed NY physician's murder
In 1998, Dr. Barnett Slepian is shot and killed. His murderer, James Koop, was the suspect in 1997's shooting of Dr. Fainman and the other unnamed doctor.
In 2009, Dr. Tiller was shot, again, and killed.

In 1994, Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols were shot and killed at clinics in MA.
In 1998, Officer Robert Sanderson was killed during a clinic bombing and nurse Emily Lyon was severely injured.

More about the violence faced by health care providers: here and also here.

So, Lynn Watchmann, your hyperbolic jackassery is not only flat out factually wrong, it's an offensive, disgustingly dramatic and saccharine call-to-arms to anti-choicers. It's dangerous. And you know it.