Yesterday, Janet Porter hosted her “Appeal To Heaven” rally outside the Ohio statehouse, which is just the latest step in her years-long effort to get the state to pass her radical anti-choice legislation known as the “Heartbeat Bill,” which would outlaw abortion within weeks of conception.
Prior to the rally, Porter was joined for a press conference by various state lawmakers who support her bill, at which State Representative Matt Lynch compared the fight to outlaw abortion in Ohio to the fight against ISIS in the Middle East.
In a video posted on YouTube by OhioCapitalBlog, Lynch declared that ISIS beheading journalists and civilians in Syria and Iraq is no different than the practice of legal abortion in Ohio.
The two issues “are not dissimilar,” Lynch insisted. “As a nation, as we’re aroused literally to move Heaven and earth to combat this evil on the other side of the world somehow we’re blind and we’re silent to the twenty thousand plus deaths that are occurring, seventy a day, right here in the state of Ohio.”
“We have to have the courage,” he said, “to understand that the moral right against evil in the mid-east is no different than the moral fight against evil right here in the state of Ohio and that evil is abortion”:
