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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:00PM (3 children)
Imagine the horror of more healthy children being born. That's not a world I want to live in!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:24PM (1 child)
The way to fix that is NOT to do what Iceland is doing.
We should ensure that ALL births are Down Syndrome and Make America Great Again!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:52PM
My cousin has Down Syndrome. He lives in a much better world than I live in, mainly due to being largely ignorant of it. He's extremely hard working, too, and has more compassion than most people in this comment section today.
So, I guess what I'm saying is... you might be on to something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:48PM
OMG!! Their forcing us to ALL have retard babies.
Analogy: when gay marriage passed, 1/2 the mouth-breathers thought they were being forced to marry someone gay.