an Ohio bill [would] ban abortions in cases where a pregnant woman has had a positive test result or prenatal diagnosis indicating Down syndrome. Physicians convicted of performing an abortion under such circumstances could be charged with a fourth-degree felony, stripped of their medical license and held liable for legal damages. The pregnant woman would face no criminal liability.
Several other states have considered similar measures, triggering emotional debate over women's rights, parental love, and the trust between doctor and patient.
The Ohio bill's chief Senate sponsor, Republican Sen. Frank LaRose, said Republican lawmakers accelerated the measure after hearing a mid-August CBS News report on Iceland's high rate of abortions in cases involving Down syndrome. The report asserted Iceland had come close to "eradicating" such births.
[...] Doctors and medical students are fighting the measure.
Parvaneh Nouri, a third-year medical student at Wright State University, told lawmakers it would do little to stop abortions but could stop information-sharing between patients and their doctors.
“It destroys the trust of our patients, for which we have worked tirelessly over generations of physicians to cultivate,” she said.
Indiana's version of the law has been blocked by a federal judge while North Dakota's law has gone unchallenged due to the state's only abortion clinic not performing abortions after 16 weeks. An Oklahoma bill that would prohibit abortions based on any genetic abnormalities did not reach the state Senate.
Previously: Down Syndrome Births Nearly Eliminated in Iceland
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:59PM (7 children)
Why does no one care when a government fucks everyone over, but it's a problem when people from a religion does it? What's the difference? People are still getting fucked.
Nobody seems to mind when ivory-tower liberals demand mom-and-pop stores bake cakes, or run gay weddings. And nobody seems to notice those same ivory-tower liberals conspicuously don't apply the same logic or laws to... Muslim cake stores.
And then you realize... oh... that's why the religious people band together to enact laws. Because they're sick of getting fucked.
And I say all this as someone who DOESN'T support Hobby Lobby's scumbag bullshit, "We don't want to cover completely moral birth control because of 'religious reasons'" But, hey, you asked a question, and I delivered.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:42PM (2 children)
"Ivory tower liberals" is a phrase that only highlights you as a "mud crawling hypocrite." Not every opinion gets the same weight, and as a society we've decided the religious bullcrap gets shirt shrift in the public domain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
How typical. Unable to address the point at hand.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @04:43PM
How typical, trying to dis-rail the conversation by talking about something off topic.
(Score: 4, Funny) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:32PM (2 children)
You must be new here.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 5, Funny) by new here on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:01PM (1 child)
no, i am new here
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:27PM
not with that UID :P
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:38PM
I, at least, do care. I hope you aren't looking to SJWs who just hate Christianity because it's trendy and love Judaism and Islam because it's trendy for anything approaching a self-consistent interpretation of the world.
It's just that the monotheistic religions heavily steeped in thar culture [uwgb.edu] are so utterly persistent in their belief that invoking a sky wizard or other imaginary friend somehow causes their rights to extend past my nose and into the sanctity of my body, voiding my goddess-given [wikipedia.org] right of “my body, my choice.”