When a bill is drafted and sometimes even when politicians vote on it and make it the law, it can codify something that people think they want in the abstract, but that seems less attractive when its consequences present themselves. This is especially true if that bill is supposed to be a stepping stone to a larger change.
This is the common perception of the rise of "heartbeat" bills that seek to prohibit abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. As Eric Zorn from The Chicago Tribune put it, these laws work to present a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that enshrined abortion rights for women.
Such an attempt has been widely criticized for restricting women's freedoms over their bodies, but even their most ardent supporters may find one aspect of the Ohio version of this law hard to defend.