Week of 12-5-16 *UPDATED

*UPDATES!
Last night (Tuesday, 12/6/16) the House and Senate voted to pass the "Heartbeat bill" HB493. This bans all abortions, no exceptions, after a heartbeat is detected. A heartbeat can be detected as early as 6 weeks, a time when many women don't even realize they are pregnant. This ban was slipped in at the last minute as an amendment to an unrelated bill.

The House also moved to pass HB127, which outlaws ALL abortions after 20 weeks, no exceptions.

Both of these bills are unconstitutional as they violate the viability standard. However, if signed they can set women back until lawsuits make their way through the courts, eventually ending up at SCOTUS. I don't have to tell you what that would mean during a He Who Must Not Be Named presidency. Please call or write to the Governor and your reps.

Just some up coming activism:

On Wednesday Connie Schultz will be discussing the "Next steps" at the Shaker Dems Meeting.
        -7:00 to 8:30pm on Dec 7 at Stephanie Tubbs Jones Community Building.
          They will be electing officers at this meeting but I've been told you will still be welcome for the                    discussion. I will be working late and may not be able to make it but would love to hear about it from any of you that can go.

Based on what I can find on Facebook these bills are up for vote this week. I am having trouble confirming through the state senate website.
       - HB48 (Guns Everywhere Bill), Moms Demand Action has giving testimony at the Statehouse last week. Unfortunately, all the Senators but one had left during opposing testimony (first person source). On the Government Oversight and Reform agenda for tomorrow at 830am, Yuko is on this committee. This is marked with a possible vote.

       -SB127, outlaw abortions after 20 weeks. In the community and family advancement committee (CFA). 
      - SB254, Cremation or burial of fetal remains. In the HG (?) committee. (I find it odd that these two are in different committees and that they're not in HHS but that's a different blog entry.) I don't believe these two are up on the schedule.

I did find two abortion bills on tomorrows schedules for CFA. HB356, use of state resources to provide. HB357, remove waiting period/remove certain notice requirements. HB370, eliminate transfer agreements with surgical facilities. These are all first hearing.

My state senator is Kenny Yuko, 614-466-4583
My House Rep is Kent Smith, 614-466-5441
Governor Kasich, 61-466-3555

And We're Live!

Hello Ladies!
I loved getting together this past Saturday for breakfast and lively discussions! I'm not sure what form  and journey this blog will take. For now I'm going to localize possible actions for us and filter the information from Pantsuit Nation. I'll also try to type up what we talk about at our "meetings."

For now I (Laura) am the only one that can write blog posts. You can comment in the comments section. If any one wants to contribute to the blog we can work something out to get it in.

For those that have a smart phone, there is an app called "Newsify." If you download it you can add this blog and you will get notifications when something new comes up. I'm sure there are other apps that do that so you can use which ever one works best for you.
***I just noticed that the picture I chose for out background is the old post office. I took it way before He Who Must Not Be Named had his hands on it.