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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/29/ohio-extreme-abortion-bill-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancyOhio bill orders doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancy or face 'abortion murder' charges
Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science
A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to reimplant an ectopic pregnancy into a womans uterus a procedure that does not exist in medical science or face charges of abortion murder.
This is the second time practising obstetricians and gynecologists have tried to tell the Ohio legislators that the idea is currently medically impossible.
The move comes amid a wave of increasingly severe anti-abortion bills introduced across much of the country as conservative Republican politicians seek to ban abortion and force a legal showdown on abortion with the supreme court.
Ohios move on ectopic pregnancies where an embryo implants on the mothers fallopian tube rather than her uterus rendering the pregnancy unviable is one of the most extreme bills to date.
I dont believe Im typing this again but, thats impossible, wrote Ohio obstetrician and gynecologist Dr David Hackney on Twitter. Well all be going to jail, he said.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)whoever voted for an illegal law?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)No words.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Simply love to waste taxpayer $$$ on this kind of bullshit. Not to mention an almost comical defiance of reality. But its OK to play God and attempt to enforce the medically impossible (and endanger womens lives in the process) to prove youre really and truly (pinky-swear!) pro-life, right? What the actual fuck.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Not only is it medically impossible, it is just stupid and cruel and obviously the idea of men who have no idea as to how women's bodies work.
From the UK Guardian: "An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition, which can kill a woman if the embryonic tissue grows unchecked." In addition to ordering doctors to do the impossible or face criminal charges, House Bill 413 bans abortion outright and defines a fertilized egg as an unborn child.
It also appears to punish doctors, women and children as young as 13 with abortion murder if they perform or have an abortion. This crime is punishable by life in prison. Another new crime, aggravated abortion murder, is punishable by death, according to the bill.
The bill is sponsored by representatives Candice Keller and Ron Hood, and co-sponsored by 19 members of Ohios 99-member House.
Mike Gonidakis, the president of the anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life, declined to comment on the bill, and said he was still reading the legislation because, its approximately 700 pages long. He said his office is taking off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving.
The Guardian also contacted the Susan B Anthony List, a national anti-abortion organization. The organization did not reply to a request for comment.
Keller, Hood and eight of the bills 19 co-sponsors did not reply to requests for comment. The Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association also did not reply to a request for comment.
Ohio passed a six-week abortion ban last summer. The heartbeat bill, as supporters called it, banned abortion before most women know they are pregnant. Reproductive rights groups immediately sued, and the bill never went into effect. Abortion is legal in all 50 US states.
In May, researcher Dr Daniel Grossman argued reimplanting a fertilized egg or embryo is pure science fiction in a Twitter thread that went viral in May, when the bill was first introduced."
I have no doubt in my mind that this is about the hatred of women and has nothing to do with "the sanctity of life". These people have absolutely no grasp of science or of how a woman's body works. It is absolutely sickening. Fuck them all!
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)Lost my left tube because of it.
The embryo is no longer viable. They are talking about killing women with something that almost killed them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is bad enough that that should have happened to you. To blame you for it and make you a criminal is an outrage. I can't believe these people. It makes me so angry.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,339 posts)Drawing insane district maps results in a concentration of insane people in office.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)The men and women (DeWine and the Republicans) introducing this twisted hateful and blatantly stupid proposal arent to be called humans. They are a wretched sub-species.
But thus is much of America these days.
malaise
(268,968 posts)I can't believe this shit
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...women and girls.