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12月6日俄亥俄州議會通過了目前美國最嚴的墮胎法案(http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/12/07/politics/ohio-abortion-bill)，又稱“心跳法案”(Heartbeat Bill)，胎兒隻要有心跳了就不能墮胎，也就是說懷孕六周後就禁止墮胎。參眾兩院都已通過，就等州長簽署或者否決了！如果州長啥都不幹，10天後法案自動生效。

這個“心跳法案”（Heartbeat Bill）是首次在Ohio州參議院通過。以前眾議院推過此案多次，都被參議院壓下了。我查了一下紀錄，這次共和黨總共23票中有20票支持，民主黨的10票全部反對。共和黨州參議員，20男3女，“心跳法案”的支持者18男2女。這就像多年前我在紐約地鐵上看到的廣告裏說的，“反對墮胎的90%是男人，但他們100%不會懷孕......”

報道說，以前共和黨控製的州參議院不讓法案通過，主要是怕打官司，知道最高法院不會站在他們這邊。現在他們認為川普上台會提名保守派大法官，他們可能會打贏官司，就通過了。

這次大選，支持川普的一個最主要的力量是教會。至少從道德的角度，教會沒有覺得川普有多好。他們的著眼點是最高法院，寄希望與共和黨候選人當選後能提名保守的大法官，增強他們在反墮胎等議題上的話語權甚至決定權。現在川普還沒有正式就任，後果已經顯現出來了。

對於今天的新聞，有醫生朋友點評說：以後俄亥俄的孕婦不用做唐篩（注）了，因為做了也沒用。
 

如果你對這個心跳法案持反對意見，請email或打電話給州長。

聯係方式： https://act1.myngp.com/Forms/-7990230163885391872

信的樣板：

I strongly support abortion access. I demand you reject both the six-week abortion ban and the 20-week abortion ban. These are unconstitutional, dangerous measures designed to punish women. You should be better than this.

These decisions must be made by women, not politicians. At six weeks, many women don’t know they are pregnant. This bill would effectively outlaw abortion in Ohio. it removes the right of rape victims to terminate a pregnancy from their assault. This bill forces women with pregnancies suffering from medical complications to carry a fetus to term.

Instead of carrying the water for groups like Faith2Action and Ohio Right to Life, you should be working on policies that support access to health care and help women and families live better lives.

Under the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a woman has a constitutional right to end her pregnancy prior to "viability.”  Both the six-week ban supported by Faith2 Action and the 20-week ban supported by Ohio Right to Life are unconstitutional by this clear standard.
 

作者：殷餘民

2016年12月7日