Sixteen women dressed as handmaids from the novel and TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" walked the halls of the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday to protest an bill that would restrict abortion here. "About a dozen women showed up at the hearing for #Ohio Senate Bill 145 on Monday afternoon dressed as characters from "#The Handmaid's Tale".
Wearing long red cloaks and white bonnets, the women gathered at the Statehouse in order to fight proposed legislation which would criminalise a common abortion procedure.
He told an interviewer that he favoured "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions, but changed his position only hours later to say only the person performing the abortion should be punished.
Co-sponsor Sen. Steve Wilson, a Republican from Warren County, said the abortion issue comes down to deciding when a fetus in the womb is a human being.
"It is the most commonly-used procedure in the second trimester so this will ban nearly all second-trimester abortions in the State of Ohio", Miracle said.
Exceptions to the proposed bill can, however, be made if the woman's life is in danger.
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The Handmaid's Tale, a novel written by Margaret Atwood, is set in a near future where fertile women are enslaved and forced to birth children for the elites of the society. The medical term is dilation and evacuation.
Roughly eight per cent of abortions in the United States are performed in the second trimester.
Ms Miracle said the demonstration was inspired by a similar "handmaids" protest in Texas earlier this year.
At a Tuesday morning hearing in OH, legislators met to consider passing Senate Bill 145, an amended version of an existing bill, which, if passed, would essentially criminalize abortion.
Seven other state legislatures have passed laws banning the procedure but several are facing court challenges.
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