Like Texas’s S.B. 8, Ohio’s proposed House Bill 480 incentivizes private citizens to sue anyone who performs or “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion” for a minimum of $10,000
Abortion-rights protesters rally in the rotunda of the Ohio statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on September 28, 2021. Photo: Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP/Shutterstock Pretty much as soon as Texas enacted its vigilante abortion ban, other conservative states weighed their own versions: Certain Florida Republicans admitted to working on a similar six-week ban, while lawmakers in South Carolina were said to be doing the same.
. Like S.B. 8, it does not make exceptions for incest or rape. But unlike S.B. 8 — which makes terminating illegal after a “heartbeat” can be detected via ultrasound, around six weeks into a pregnancy — it does not attempt to set any deadline on legal abortion in the state. Instead, H.B. 480 outlaws all abortion in Ohio, full stop.
“It’s an egregious assault on women, a dangerous attack on healthcare rights and an embarrassment for our state. Ohio Republicans want to control women, but we won’t be silent,” Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes said of the bill, according to Cleveland.com. “Criminalizing care will disproportionately impact women of color, nonbinary people and those already at a disadvantage in our health and criminal justice system.
H.B. 480, or the “2363 Act” — named for the number of abortions supposedly performed daily in the U.S., according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, though based on the most recent data, this number seems inflated — counts 33 Republicans as co-sponsors, more than half of the party’s 64-35 majority in the House.
Meanwhile, S.B. 8 came up for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, after the Department of Justice sued Texas for a flagrant violation of federal law. Under Roe v. Wade, abortion remains legal up until viability, around 23 weeks . At present, the bench looks poised to rule in favor of abortion providers, its conservative members seemingly concerned about the implications of vigilante enforcement for, say, gun rights. Still, even though S.B.
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