Ohio bill would require re-implantation of ectopic pregnancies into the uterus.

[RandySF]

A new Ohio bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. Opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control.

One-fifth of representatives in the House, all Republicans, have signed onto House Bill 182 sponsored by state Rep. John Becker (R-Union Twp.) that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services.

“The intent is to save lives and reduce the cost of employers and employees health care insurance," Becker says.

The bill would ban nontherapeutic abortions that include "drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”

Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb.

“Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains.

“That doesn’t exist in the realm of treatment for ectopic pregnancy," argues says Jaime Miracle, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. "You can’t just re-implant. It’s not a medical thing."

She says, under this bill, women would have to wait until their very lives were in danger to get an abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy.



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[emmaverybo]

1. An ectopic pregnancy can be life threatening and the medical response is NOT re-do. nt

[3catwoman3]

2. Another asshole male legislator who...

...has NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THE HELL HE IS TALKING ABOUT!!! (And, yes, I am shouting.)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. That alone makes it clear that the people writing this bill

know absolutely nothing about medical things related to pregnancy. Especially an ectopic pregnancy.

I just wish one of their wives or sisters or daughters would explain stuff to them.

Or that doctors would show up en masse to explain basic medical things to them.

[susanna]

13. Thank you.

Every bit of my science background + being a female with a set of fallopian tubes is like: WTAAAAAAAAAA (all the actuals) H?

If you (these lawmakers) do not understand the science behind conception/pregnancy/gestation, please take a moment to absorb your own ignorance and do not attempt to make laws about what YOU DON'T KNOW.

This all is some 'Handmaid's Tale' shit right here.

[Beartracks]

35. They would just claim the physicians are part of a vast fake-news conspiracy...

... and dismiss their educated opinions.

Republicans are tools.

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[Trailrider1951]

4. Here is the contact information for Rep. Becker (R-FuckingIdiot):

Representative John Becker
District 65
77 S. High St
12th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone [phone]
Fax [phone]

http://www.ohiohouse.gov/john-becker

Let's give him an earful.

[Hekate]

5. They hate women, don't they? We are worthless without our uteruses, & we can't be trusted with them

We are just lawless, mindless, immoral, fucking cows in their eyes.

Aren't we?

[barbtries]

8. yes.

if this bill passes it won't last a second. but the wasted time and money. all to control the women they clearly hate.

[susanna]

14. Seems that way. (n/t)

[Delmette2.0]

31. I think they are afraid of women, which makes them hate.

These ignorant men are actually afraid of losing their gawd given control over women. They refuse to admit that women are equal to them in intelligence and sometimes more than equal in moral and emotional strength.

I think they take to heart the phrase "keep them barefoot and pregnant". In fact they are the ones who are ignorant, and emotionally hysterical.

[ProudLib72]

6. Stone baby

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rare-40-year-stone-baby-found-elderly-woman/story?id=21206604

An elderly Colombian woman was stunned when she went to the doctor for pelvic pain and was told the pain was caused by a 40-year-old "stone" fetus.

The 82-year-old had been carrying the calcified four-pound fetus called a lithopedion for decades without realizing it, according to the Telegraph.

Garcsi, who did not treat the Colombian woman, says the lithopedion is created when a pregnancy forms in the abdomen rather than in the uterus. When the pregnancy ultimately fails, usually because the fetus does not have enough blood supply, there is no way for the body to expel the fetus.

As a result, the body turns the fetus to "stone," using the same immune process that protects the body from any foreign object detected in a person's system. Garcsi said it may seem odd, but that the process is used constantly in the body to stay healthy.

[marlakay]

7. That's insane!

My daughter almost died from that type of pregnancy.

[More_Cowbell]

9. If this doesn't get the Ohio Democrats out voting next year, nothing will nt

[RandySF]

12. ..

[MerryBlooms]

24. Rec! Perfect illustration.

[sandensea]

10. Margaret Atwood wasn't kidding

Unbelievable.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Women aren't people. Women are baby making machines to be tossed out

once they are done being useful. Women as baby making factories. That is what these men believe.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

15. Vastectomies aren't banned

Of course they aren’t.

[exboyfil]

33. Catholic medical groups are working that the other direction

My group doesn't do them anymore after being bought out by another Catholic organization. I really like the doctor that did mine, and it sucks how he was treated.

[safeinOhio]

16. Ohio next law will be death penalty for anyone

that shoots and kills a stork while in flight.

[sarabelle]

17. Never before have state and local elections been so important to challenge. We Dems must be on

every ballot for every seat in every county and city in the USA.

[Dorian Gray]

18. This is insane stupidity

This shows that it's a vehemently uneducated position, and while I understand why abortion may make some people uncomfortable, THIS shows that people aren't even interested in educating themselves about how a woman's body works and discuss ways in which certain procedures may be medically necessary.

If it's a morality issue, I don't see how someone who truly understand what an ectopic pregnancy is, that it's not tenable, and that it could seriously endanger the mother's health could support this absolute nonsense.

[Vinca]

19. If only they cared about babies OUTSIDE the womb . . .

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Oh, goodie. A Male has thought up another way to kill women.

Mandate a medical procedure that doesn't exist.

[lunasun]

21. Nutty and dangerous RTLers

[spanone]

22. goddamn crazed republcons

[Corgigal]

23. Like insurance companies

will cover this procedure. Looks experimental, cause it is.

[backtoblue]

25. Holy f''ck!

An ectopic pregnancy is always dangerous!!!

Crazy fucking idiots!!!!!!!!!

[2naSalit]

26. Only if...

all the men who have sex in that governing body have all their sex fluids injected back into their source.

[doompatrol39]

27. I hope at this point it's obvious...

...what many of us have been saying for decades. This has nothing to do with religion or values or life or any of it. It has to do with controlling women and criminalizing women have sex and denying women control of their own bodies.

There is no "good faith" here. There is no "Christianity" here. There are no "values" here.

This is the end result of decades of naïveté on the part of far too many Democrats who felt that we needed to "understand" these people or "reach out to them" or whatever the fuck else.

And make no mistake about this, their disease is going to spread across the country.

I'm not one who advocates for boycotts over every little thing but given how much business much of Hollywood is doing in Georgia I hope many there will have the courage to put their money where their mouths are and stop doing business in Georgia. Similarly every state with Democratic legislatures needs to do what they did with North Carolina and their bathroom law and not allow any state business to be conducted there.

[tanyev]

28. Might as well use the terminology "the host" instead of "woman" throughout the bill.

[Mendocino]

29. I live in Ohio.

I guess that OH is trying to outdo Georgia and Alabama.

[lpbk2713]

30. Why the fuck can't rethuglicans stay out of a woman's vagina?

They are scaringly obsessive about this.

[fescuerescue]

32. Just a PR stunt. That bill isn't going anywere

[sakabatou]

34. WTF?!