Monday, April 16, 2012
COLUMBUS (AP) — Supporters of an Ohio bill that would impose the nation’s strictest abortion limit are preparing stepped-up attacks as lawmakers return to Columbus.
National Right to Life founder Jack Willke demands in a full-page newspaper ad expected to appear in the Columbus Dispatch on Tuesday that the bill restricting abortions after the first detectable heartbeat be passed right away and not be watered down.
Willke, of Cincinnati, says in the ad obtained by The Associated Press that without passage, the bill’s backers will fight to replace nonsupporters in the fall election.
“Tell the Ohio GOP Senate to pass the strongest Heartbeat Bill now — or we will work to replace them with people who will,” Willke’s letter concludes. The 87-year-old Willke calls the bill’s passage his dying wish.