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In an email this week, pro-life group Created Equal told supporters that abortion advocates in Ohio have introduced House Bill 234<\/a>, which Created Equal says (original emphasis) \u201cwould make behavior which might annoy someone<\/em> who works, owns, or seeks care at a \u2018reproductive services\u2019 clinic illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the text of the bill states, in Section 2307.48<\/strong>, that \u201cannoying\u201d an employee counts as a violation:<\/p>\n

“Harassment” means a knowing and willful course of conduct that is directed at one or more employees of a health care facility, that would cause a reasonable person to be seriously alarmed, annoyed, or harassed, that in fact seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses the employee or employees, and that serves no legitimate purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Section 2919.10<\/strong>, the bill adds that \u201cno person shall knowingly\u2026 follow and harass another person within fifteen feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility\u201d or \u201cengage in a course of conduct or repeatedly commit acts within fifteen feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility when that behavior places another person in reasonable fear of physical harm, or attempt to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Violators of the bill will be looked upon as \u201cguilty of impeding access to reproductive health care, a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony of the fourth degree on each subsequent offense.\u201d Created Equal notes that the felony charges would carry \u201ca sentence of up to 18 months in prison and a fine of $5,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pro-life group also says the Columbus City Council attempted to enforce a \u201cvery similar measure\u201d last year, which even the ACLU of Ohio condemned<\/a>, because laws prohibiting such violence and threats are already in effect, and due to its use of subjective terms like \u201cannoy.\u201d The ACLU also denounced the city council’s attempt to enforce a 15-foot buffer zone around abortion facilities, a violation of free speech which even the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled against in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an email this week, pro-life group Created Equal told supporters that abortion advocates in Ohio have introduced House Bill 234, which Created Equal says (original emphasis) \u201cwould make behavior which might annoy someone who works, owns, or seeks care at a \u2018reproductive services\u2019 clinic illegal.\u201d Indeed, the text of the bill states, in Section […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":91402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOhio House Bill seeks abortion clinic 'buffer zones' and penalizes pro-lifers who "annoy" workers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Even the ACLU of Ohio condemned a strikingly similar Columbus City Council ordinance from last year for its redundancy and free speech violations.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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