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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: 4, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:28PM (4 children)
Regardless of where you live in the US, even if abortions were many times as expensive and inconvenient, they'd still cost less then even just delivering, let alone raising, a child.
Overall, anti-abortion laws are just like the tough-against-crime demagogy. Less about Christian morals and more about casting the first stone. After all, what would Jesus say about a state budget that spends so much on cops, courts and jails and so little on healthcare and welfare? Would he approve the current rich and corporation favoring tax-codes? If given the choice between a right-to-bear-arms or an occupy-wallstreet event, which would he have attended? How would he have looked at a law that seeks to jail a mother for aborting her fetus for 30 years instead of giving her the money to support her child for 20?
I'm sorry. But the Ohio electorate needs to get their morals, constructive measures and priorities straight. Cause right now they're failing at everything.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:20PM
You're thinking of a different Jesus then they do. [beliefnet.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:38PM (1 child)
I've only got one small nitpick about your post: who the fuck would use a mythical demi-God called Jesus as the arbiter of anything? Why not use fucking Zuul off Ghostbusters instead.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:13AM
I dunno man....
Seems to be an easy choice :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:06AM
Delivering a child is free. I did 4 of mine that way, peacefully at home.
Raising a child can be profitable. Federal law allows child labor if the child is working for the parent. Subcontracting... :-)