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<p>Earlier this year, I reported on the Kansas legislature’s attempt to <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/kansas-attempts-to-become-the-third-state-in-2013-to-pass-a-heartbeat-bill/">become the third state</a> to pass a fetal heartbeat bill. Ohio is now the newest state joining the battle. As Representative Christina Hagan <a href="http://www.hudsonhubtimes.com/regional/2013/08/21/ohio-lawmakers-to-introduce-revamped-heartbeat-bill">puts it</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s a new general assembly, and we’re ready to start the fire again, and we’re ready for battle for what we believe is most important in this world, and that is life. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2484" title="Permanent Link: Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(906 words, estimated 3:37  mins reading time)</i></span></p></blockquote>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2484" title="Permanent Link: Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (906 words, estimated 3:37  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2484,"date":"2013-08-22T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2013-08-22T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:28:04","slug":"ending-abortion-at-the-heart-states-attempt-to-ban-abortion-based-on-fetal-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I reported on the Kansas legislature\u2019s attempt to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/kansas-attempts-to-become-the-third-state-in-2013-to-pass-a-heartbeat-bill\/\">become the third state<\/a>\u00a0to pass a fetal heartbeat bill. Ohio is now the newest state joining the battle. As Representative Christina Hagan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonhubtimes.com\/regional\/2013\/08\/21\/ohio-lawmakers-to-introduce-revamped-heartbeat-bill\">puts it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a new general assembly, and we\u2019re ready to start the fire again, and we\u2019re ready for battle for what we believe is most important in this world, and that is life. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2484\" title=\"Permanent Link: Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(906 words, estimated 3:37  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2484\" title=\"Permanent Link: Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (906 words, estimated 3:37  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2484\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ending abortion at the heart: States attempt to ban abortion based on fetal heartbeat - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Earlier this year, I reported on the Kansas legislature\u2019s attempt to\u00a0become the third state\u00a0to pass a fetal heartbeat bill. 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