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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:57PM (1 child)
Yep. Sunni and Shia as well. Let's also not forget Eastern Orthodox. It's just one big, happy Yahweh-worshiping family.
Hopefully this all illustrates how fucking stupid the whole sky wizard idea is. Ever since Abraham had some crazy command hallucinations [wikipedia.org] while dehydrated in a desert and probably high on camel jenkem, every so often somebody comes along and suddenly realizes "omg, the priests are worshiping Yahweh wrong! here is my lawyer-like interpretation of the etymology of a solitary word that proves that only I know the one true way to worship Yahweh!"
Then everybody starts killing each other over who has the more correct way of worshiping the imaginary sky daddy.
Damned thing gets forked more often than a github project.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @03:13AM
The best God joke ever--and it's mine! by Emo Philips [theguardian.com]
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