Fri Aug 12, 2022 – 2:51 pm EDT
NORTH CENTRAL, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) – 160 Christian clergymen are calling on Ohio’s governor and lawmakers to extend the state’s abortion restrictions, asserting that abortion “is not healthcare.”
While Ohio law currently bans abortion after a heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks, an August 8th letter from 160 clergy from the Buckeye Bible Belt appealed to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to extend that ban to nearly all abortions across the state.
“Abortion is infanticide and never was a right expressly written in the U.S. Constitution,” the letter opened. “This diabolical decision allowed the murder of an unborn child on demand up to birth, (2) led to the untimely deaths of at least sixty-three million unborn children (3) and caused America to be a reproach among the nations.”
“Abortion is murder that takes the life of an unborn child and can cause grave physical harm to the mother and emotional harm to both the mother and father,” the signatories added.
The letter appealed to DeWine to pass the ‘Human Life Protection Act’ H.B. 598 and its companion S.B. 123 which would “effectively ban abortion” in Ohio. According to H.B. 598, an abortionist would be
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