Republican lawmakers in Ohio proposed a bill seeking to ban all abortions in the state—going farther than the new law in Texas that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The proposed legislation would ban abortion at any stage of pregnancy—from the moment of conception, and regardless of whether a heartbeat is present—going further than the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8, signed in May. The measure is called House Bill 480 or the “2363 Act,” which lawmakers say refers to the average daily number of abortions performed in the United States in 2017. The bill defines an “unborn child” as an individual human being “from fertilization until live birth.” “Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person shall purposely perform or attempt to perform an abortion,” reads the text of the bill, which defines abortion as actions that seek “to terminate the pregnancy of a …