reposting, in case anyone forgets, DeWine tried a side door abortion ban in Spring 2020
His long history of anti woman issues is sliding into memory hole.
1-https://www.democraticunderground.com/10714735
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https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200330/coronavirus-in-ohio-judge-temporarily-blocks-state-health-order-halting-abortions-during-coronavirus
snip-Ohio’s abortion clinics can continue to provide abortions amid a state health department order to ban all elective surgeries during the novel coronavirus outbreak, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Barrett ruled that Ohio’s abortion clinics could perform surgical abortions if they could not be delayed because of a medical condition or the delay would prevent the abortion under Ohio law.
snip-The Ohio Department of Health had threatened to apply the ban on all elective surgeries to surgical abortions, effectively banning all abortions after 10 weeks gestation, according to a motion filed by Ohio’s surgical abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, on Monday.
snip-"A global pandemic is no time to be playing politics with healthcare, and we are relieved that the district court has acknowledged that abortion is an essential and time-sensitive health care service,” said Chrisse France, the executive director of Cleveland’s abortion clinic Preterm, in a statement."
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I wish the pro-choice groups would add this argument to their arsenal.
2010
Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion
Andrew Koppelman
Northwestern University School of Law, akoppelman@law.northwestern.edu
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1031&context=facultyworkingpapers
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I. The basic argument The Thirteenth Amendment reads as follows:
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
My claim is that the amendment is violated by laws that prohibit abortion. When women are compelled to carry and bear children, they are subjected to "involuntary servitude" in violation of the amendment. Abortion prohibitions violate the Amendment's guarantee of personal liberty, because forced pregnancy and childbirth, by compelling the woman to serve the fetus, creates "that control by which the personal service of one man [sic] is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit which is the essence of involuntary servitude."6
Such laws violate the amendment's guarantee of equality, because forcing women to be mothers makes them into a servant caste, a group which, by virtue of a status of birth, is held subject to a special duty to serve others and not themselves.
~more at link
Parents can't be compelled to donate their organs to their child, even to save the child's life. Why does a fetus have more claim on a woman's body than her child who has been born?
THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A WOMAN CAN MAKE ISN'T YOURS.
