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Posted: 2021-11-03T19:18:59Z | Updated: 2021-11-03T19:18:59Z

Conservative lawmakers in Ohio introduced a copycat Texas abortion restriction Tuesday night that goes even further than the highly controversial measure from the Lone Star State. Rather than impacting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, the law aims to prohibit them at any stage of pregnancy.

Republican state Reps. Jena Powell and Thomas Hall introduced H.B. 480 on Tuesday evening. Similar to Texas S.B. 8 , H.B. 480 deputizes private citizens to enforce the law by offering a $10,000 bounty to anyone who successfully sues someone aiding or abetting a person seeking an abortion.

The sanctity of human life, born and preborn, must be preserved in Ohio, Powell said in a statement, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer . Abortion kills children, scars families, and harms women. We can and must do better. Powell did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.

The proposed legislation is titled the 2363 Act for the two thousand three hundred sixty-three children lost to abortion every day in the United States, according to the bill . In 2018, 619,591 abortions were performed, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which comes out to around 1,698 abortions performed each day.

Powell and Hall unveiled their bill just a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Texas controversial abortion ban, S.B. 8. Many of the Supreme Court Justices, including Donald Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, seemed open to allowing legal challenges to Texas abortion ban. The Texas restriction, which went into effect on Sept. 1, is highly controversial and has already had deeply detrimental effects on people seeking abortions in the state.

One key part of Texas vigilante anti-abortion law was to provide a roadmap for other states, and we are seeing that now as Ohio is following in Texass footsteps, Elizabeth Nash, a principal policy associate at Guttmacher Institute , a research and policy organization that supports abortion rights, wrote to HuffPost.

Should Ohio adopt a total abortion ban, it would utterly dismantle abortion access in the state, she continued. This law would mean that patients would have to pull together at least hundreds of dollars, be away from home possibly for days take time off of work, arrange childcare, and travel significant distances to get the abortion. Not surprisingly, this would be an insurmountable burden for many, particularly those facing systemic oppression including those with low incomes, people of color and LGBTQ individuals.