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We Are Disappointed Ohio House Passed ‘Heartbeat’ Anti-Abortion Bill

Toledo, Ohio, November 15, 2018 — The Secular Humanists of Western Lake Erie are extreme­ly dis­ap­point­ed that the Ohio House passed the so-called “Heartbeat” anti-abortion law, HB 258, on Thursday.

The Republican par­ty claims to be about pro­tect­ing our rights but it seems they want to deny basic bod­i­ly auton­o­my to the women of Ohio, a right that seems to be the default for male cit­i­zens of Ohio. There are no laws restrict­ing men’s acces­si­bil­i­ty to health care.

This same Republican dom­i­nat­ed state house, in the name of rights, stripped away reg­u­la­tions on the 2nd amend­ment, end­ed Ohio cities abil­i­ty to use Red Light cam­eras for traf­fic enforce­ment, and sup­port­ed the Reagan Tokes Act and “Sierah’s Law.”

Yet instead of work­ing to bet­ter the lives of all Ohioans equal­ly, the Republican lead­er­ship decid­ed to waste tax­pay­er mon­ey to pass a law that lacks any ratio­nal sci­en­tif­ic basis and most like­ly vio­lates pre­vi­ous fed­er­al court rul­ings. It is a law that would restrict the rights of at least half the pop­u­la­tion.

Humanists believe that pub­lic laws and poli­cies should not be based on reli­gious ide­ol­o­gy but should be based on sound objec­tive rea­sons.

SHoWLE has trou­ble rec­on­cil­ing a polit­i­cal par­ty that claims it wants to “make America great again” with the con­stant effort to inject them­selves into the med­ical deci­sions of women and their Doctors.

This needs to stop.

SHoWLE will con­tin­ue to sup­port women in Ohio who want to make their own med­ical deci­sions with­out reli­gious inter­ces­sion.

Media Contacts

Douglas Berger — President
419–356-8568

Shawn Meagley — Vice President
419–266-7945

About SHoWLE:

The mis­sion of the Secular Humanists of Western Lake Erie is to pro­vide a sup­port­ive local com­mu­ni­ty for human­ists and oth­er non­the­ists, while pro­mot­ing an eth­i­cal, rea­son­able, and sec­u­lar approach to life through edu­ca­tion, com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice, out­reach, activism, and social events.

We envi­sion a Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan where sec­u­lar peo­ple are respect­ed and inte­grat­ed in broad­er soci­ety, live val­ues of rea­son and com­pas­sion, and enjoy a friend­ly human­ist com­mu­ni­ty.

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