DNC CEO Seema Nanda released the following statement after Republicans in the Ohio legislature passed a six-week abortion ban:<\/p>\n
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\u201cToday, Ohio Republicans became the latest example of how the Trump administration\u2019s extremist, anti-women policies have emboldened legislators across the country to attack women\u2019s access to health care. With the state legislature\u2019s passage of Ohio\u2019s so-called \u2018heartbeat bill,\u2019 the extreme, unconstitutional abortion ban that even former Republican Governor John Kasich vetoed is headed for Republican Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s signature. This shameful ban, which doesn\u2019t even make exceptions for cases of rape or incest, would put women\u2019s lives at risk by barring their access to safe, legal abortion. This is a direct attack on a woman\u2019s right to make decisions about her own body with her doctor.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOhio is only one of more than a dozen states that have introduced legislation banning abortion after six weeks this year. With Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and Donald Trump in the White House, Republicans will continue to push unconstitutional bills just like this as part of a larger effort to ban abortion nationwide. While Republicans continue to play partisan games with women\u2019s health care, Democrats will keep fighting to protect women\u2019s access to critical care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DNC CEO Seema Nanda released the following statement after Republicans in the Ohio legislature passed a six-week abortion ban: \u201cToday, Ohio Republicans became the latest example of how the Trump administration\u2019s extremist, anti-women policies have emboldened legislators across the country to attack women\u2019s access to health care. With the state legislature\u2019s passage of Ohio\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n