KIDS AS POLITICAL PROPS

Ohio is going through some tough times, my friends. If you don't know about it I'm here to tell you, in a nutshell, what it is. If passed, the Heartbeat Bill would in turn make Ohio have the most strict abortion laws in our nation, yay. If a heartbeat is detected an abortion would be illegal. So, there ya go. Well, yesterday, more people were arguing for the bill.. and this time guess what they did? Brought their kids!



What the
fuck
?! I saw this video from Rachel Maddow's blog, and watch around a minute and a half. A little boy is put up to the podium and he says, "My name is Noah, and I'm four, and I'm a heartbeat."

Really? Noah, you're also a little boy who can't vote. You're a little boy that was most likely born into a stable privileged family (considering the fact that you are at an Ohio Press Conference while 33 Senators watch you and you get on YouTube) and Noah, I'm glad you're alive. That's awesome that your mother didn't have to go through the gut-wrenching awful situation of thinking about having to abort you because she either couldn't raise you or because she wasn't ready for you. Congrats on that, little Noah.

At the end of the press conference, the children gave the Senators teddy bears with sound boxes in them. What? A sound box? Yes. A sound box that gave off the sound of a fetal heartbeat at 18 weeks. EIGHTEEN WEEKS. The Heartbeat Bill, as explained above, would make an abortion illegal at 5 or 7 weeks into a pregnancy. This is incredibly inaccurate and manipulative. 

What the
fuck
, Ohio? What? Guh.

xoxo
CORTNIE