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The Ohio “Heartbeat Bill” and Adoption Mania at the Statehouse

People outside holding protest signs saying Equal Rights for Adult Adoptees

A few weeks ago, Ohio became the sixth state to pass a so-called “Heartbeat Bill” that prohibits abortion after a “fetal heartbeat” can be heard–around the sixth week of pregnancy when most women don’t even know yet they are pregnant.

Ohio’s “Heartbeat Bill” has been covered extensively, and I don’t intend to reinvent that wheel. Little has been mentioned, however, about how these bills, especially in Ohio, originated with individuals opposed to adoptee civil rights and how implementation can stymie adoptee rights and adoption reform.

“Heartbeat” and Adoption: Background

Community Organizing Meeting for Edith in Sanctuary

Lots of people posing with Keep Edith Home signs

Tuesday, May 28, 6:30-8:30pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
We are in need of volunteers! Join us this Tuesday, May 28 at 6:30pm at Columbus Mennonite Church to get hands-on with our current projects that are happening THIS WEEK! There is some exciting news to share about a path forward, but we need your help. All are welcome!

Support DPA's Work to Protest the 1500th Execution!

Woman from neck down wearing black T-shirt with words Stop Executions Now

Death Penalty Action is raising funds to support protests on the ground at the site of the 1500th execution in the United States since 1977. At this writing on May 24th, the 1500th execution may be July 31st in Texas. This may change if there is a stay in prior execution(s) or new dates are added.

These funds will help us raise awareness and coordinate on-the-ground activities around the date of the execution. With your help, we'll be able to support abolitionists who would travel to be there.

Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $1500. Every little bit helps. 

Thank you for your support. Death Penalty Action (DPA) provides high visibility resources, leadership, support, educational and direct action events and activities within the broader anti-death penalty movement.

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U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1

The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.

The Army asked: “How has serving impacted you?”

Here’s a tiny sample of the responses:

Forced birth, ectopic transplants, and misogyny: Where crank science meets crank politicians in Ohio

Balding white guy with sire rimmed glasses, a blue suit coat and maroon shirt and striped tie holding a silver microphone talking into it

OMG! Ohio Rep. John Becker (R-Clermont County)is even dumber than I thought. In fact, he has just grabbed the dumber-than-a-doorknob title held for the last few years by former Rep. Jim Buchy who once told Al Jazeera  he couldn’t figure out why someone would want an abortion.

Becker is the Republican who introducedHB 182in the Ohio House a couple of weeks ago, The bill excludes private insurance coverage for abortion, It includes two other whackadoodle provisions:

·         mandates a medical procedure to remove the embryo in an ectopic pregnancy from a Fallopian tube or elsewhere and implant it in the uterus in to order avoid abortion.

·         “prohibits the use of drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.” whatever that means.

Dayton Police Splurge On KKK Protection

Guys waving flags and with Ku Klux Klan signs

Dayton police protected nine KKK members with hundreds of police yesterday at a two hour Honorable Sacred Knight of the Klu Klux Klan’s Members and Supporters Only Rally in a show of police force not common in Dayton. Across downtown Dayton about 3,000 peace and equality loving protesters sang songs, led chants, and gave speeches, with several hundred across the street from Courthouse Square, several hundred at the launch of Black Lives Matter Dayton at RiverScape MetroPark, and several hundred more celebrated An Afternoon Of Love, Unity, Peace and Inclusion in McIntosh Park.

“Dayton turned out,” said Dayton resident Miracle Woods who attended the counter protests. “We didn’t do any negative sh*t, we came in love and peace and we left in love and peace,” she said. Woods, who was not with a particular group but identified as being with “the anti-KKK unity,” was critical of how the city handled the KKK permit. She said “the mayor needs her ass whooped” for allowing the KKK permit to be rushed through.

Oppose HB 6

Top of nuclear plant with lots of white smoke coming out

From the Sierra Club Beyond Coal:  Nearly 300 of you have made calls, and more than 1,400 messages have been sent to Ohio State Representatives to oppose the nuclear bailout bill (HB 6) but the bill is still alive!  We need to keep the momentum going. Call your state representatives to oppose the nuclear bailout bill. Here's the message: The nuclear bailout bill-HB6 is moving in the OH Statehouse. If it's not stopped, we'll pay hundreds of millions a year for these uneconomic plants! Call your state rep. at 1-512-562-9139 to stop the nuclear bailout bill! #NoOnHB6 #NoNukeBailoutTax #OhiosEnergyFuture.  

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