Ohio GOP Abortion Ban Bill Author Calls Pregnancy From Rape An 'Opportunity' In Speech

OH Rep. Schmidt (R) on her abortion ban bill: "Rape is a difficult issue... but if a baby is created, it's human life. Whether that mother ends that pregnancy... the scars won't go away. It's a shame it happens, but there's an opportunity for women no matter how young or old..."pic.twitter.com/PVOHWlFvPq

— Heartland Signal (@Heartland Signal) 1651082260

Misogyny perpetuated by women to raise up and protect their men . The ultimate rape culture - women should be thankful for the opportunity.OH Vote HER outhttps://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— theseeker (@theseeker) 1651348055

Here an elected republican and former member of Congress calls being raped "an opportunity" for the victim in defending another republican law to criminalize women's control over their own bodies.https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— Bill Pascrell, Jr. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Bill Pascrell, Jr. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1651258201

if you're in an accident and need a life-saving blood transfusion, the government cannot force someone else to give blood without their consent. that's how seriously we take bodily autonomy.\n\nand yet extremist right-wing legislatures want a say in what women do with their bodies:https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— McKenzie Wilson (@McKenzie Wilson) 1651269335

We're not doing this. No. This woman will be first in line to ban the morning after pill, IUDs and other birth control and we're not going to go this again.https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— Abigail Gardner (@Abigail Gardner) 1651182023

What if, instead, we reframe our efforts toward preventing rape...think about how we can raise boys NOT to rape, rather than raise girls to live in fear.\n#ViolenceAgainstWomenhttps://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— \ud83c\udf37Annie C\ud83c\udf37\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@\ud83c\udf37Annie C\ud83c\udf37\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1651185492

If it happened to her daughter or granddaughter would she see it as an opportunity for them as well?https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— Denise Haynes\ud83d\uddfd\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udc18\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd92\ud83d\udc0b\ud83c\udf0a (@Denise Haynes\ud83d\uddfd\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udc18\ud83c\udf3b\ud83e\udd92\ud83d\udc0b\ud83c\udf0a) 1651194562

This right here is what keeps me awake at night, this is what the GQP has morphed into and they want to push these Christofascist ideals on all of us. There is a reason the founding fathers were adamant about separation of church and state.\n#VoteBlueIn2022 #wtpBlue #DemsActhttps://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— Brian Cardone \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Brian Cardone \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1651242482

How many children have Anti-abortionists adopted? Right now in TX, there\u2019s a CRISIS of neglect and abuse in TX\u2019s child care system, and that\u2019s true for other states. But you want to place a child in that system? That\u2019s monstrous and evil.https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— H. Gossett (@H. Gossett) 1651174015

Had I gotten pregnant when I was raped and held hostage, being forced to carry and birth my rapist\u2019s baby at the age of 14 would not have been an \u201copportunity,\u201d and it\u2019s positively alarming that anyone would suggest as much.https://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1519375241734197249\u00a0\u2026

— Jennifer Urs Sullivan (@Jennifer Urs Sullivan) 1651178785