A few weeks ago, we noted that Janet Porter was organizing “An Appeal To Heaven” rally to take place outside the Ohio Statehouse this month at which she and various anti-choice and Religious Right activists will ask God to help pass Porter’s “Heartbeat Bill.”
For four years, Porter has been working, unsuccessfully, to pass this legislation in Ohio which, if enacted, would prevent a woman from having an abortion from the moment a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be “as early as 18 to 24 days after conception.”
The rally is scheduled for next Wednesday and somehow Porter has managed to get Glenn Beck to film a video encouraging people to attend and participate.
“I hope, by now, your aware the elected officials in Columbus haven’t done the things that you’ve hired them to do,” Beck says in the video. “They say they’re pro-life, but they have held a pro-life Heartbeat Bill hostage for four years.”
“You’ve called, you’ve rallied, but it’s time to go over their heads,” he said, “and I mean way over their heads and make an appeal, not to the courts – your’re invited to join pastors and leaders from all around the state for an appeal to Heaven”:
