“We will have a supermajority that is pro-life in both chambers and the next General Assembly that will be sworn in less than two weeks, and we have a governor coming in who has said he will sign that bill,” Obhof said, the Plain Dealer reported.
The PD reported that the vote in the Senate was 19 to 13, one short of the constitutionally required 20 votes needed to override a veto.
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Gov. Kasich said in 2016 while
campaigning for president that he
would like to see Roe v Wade overturned
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If that happens, Ohio will have effectively aborted its future, rushing pell mell in retrograde motion to claim it's a state of the past, not of the future. Media, especially the platoon of Ohio statehouse reporters, has completely missed the relationship between backward thinking social engineering and future economic development.
Women represent a majority of today's workforce, they represent a majority of voters, and they arguably represent Ohio's future workforce, as Buckeye youth leave for greener pastures in other growing states where jobs are far more plentiful or will be than back home.
Outgoing Gov. John Kasich, whose tenure is short-lived as Ohio's quirky if not Quixotic CEO who hopes God sends him a message to run for President of the United States a third time come 2020, in his heart of hearts would love to sign the Heartbeat Bill. Afterall, it represents his long-held, male dominated notion that abortion is a sin against God, because the Bible says so. A Bible thumper his entire life, Kasich retreats into sanctimonious blather, a political redoubt he hopes cannot be trumped.
Please recall, that on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, Gov. Kasich, who everyone, especially reporters should remember wanted to be a Catholic priest as a young boy, said he wants Roe v Wade overturned so states can be free to deal with abortion on their own terms. It comes as no surprise, then, that Kasich believes the tripe that Planned Parenthood, a group he worked to deny funding to, was selling baby parts. Good grief!
By using the clever red herring reasoning that signing such a monstrosity bill would trigger court challenges that would cost taxpayers a bundle to defend the backward measure in court, Kasich hopes to appear one shade saner than Obhof and like-minded Republicans who seem determined to force this terrible bill into law next year.
Kasich may earn some brownie points by vetoing the bill, although he squanders those same brownie points when he signed yet another abortion bill into law that limits the time a woman can exercise her constitutional rights to a procedure not sought, that nonetheless can save the life of a mother when performed.
Barely positive in population growth over the last ten years, Ohio is drifting older, less educated, fatter and, with Obhof's cock-sure crowing that the HeartBeat Bill will become law next year, dumber.
When a mega-corporation like Amazon looked at dozens of communities across the nation to expand its HQ2, Columbus and Cincinnati were among the contenders. Amazon selected New York City and Washington D.C, locations where social attitudes are far more liberal and saner to the social current and proposed landscape in Ohio.
There's no doubt that Amazon would have turned down Ohio's public largess in a heartbeat, simply based on backward social engineering like Ohio's austere climate for women's health options. What CEO would want to subject their female workforce, including the daughters and granddaughters of those female employees to the kind of harsh climate Obhof thinks Ohio needs?
Already struggling to create enough jobs for all the Ohioans wanting good-paying, full-time jobs, despite Kasich's easily disproved claims of how his super secret JobsOhio group is doing, Ohio's is ready to further abort its future with ill-conceived laws like the Heartbeat Bill.
While it may bring smiles to Ohio's Right-to-Life community, a slender slice of the population Kasich and other GOP officials love to court, the court challenges that are guaranteed to occur if the GOP-led legislature does what it wants to do will further shine a light on how Ohio, a once great state, has fallen into a severe state of mental disrepair.
The social climate and the jobs climate cannot be separated. One begets the others, so the sooner statehouse reporters understand this relationship the sooner they can push Obhof and company to confront their own cruel thirst for draconian bills, that if quenched with more monstrosity bills like HeartBeat, will foreclose on any serious job growth the Buckeye State hopes to garner from new growth states like Idaho, Arizona, Washington or old ones like California.
Ohio's future is a heartbeat away. But if bad bills are the vowed future agenda of nutty lawmakers like Obhof and nuttier governors like Mike DeWine, don't blame Amazon or any other company for saying thanks but no thanks to any tax giveaways the state thinks it can offer that offset the dire consequences from backward thinking people and their backward looking bills.
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