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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @11:29PM (2 children)
I hate to say this but my mom goes to abortion clinic protests. To them it's about not killing babies. Someone needs to protect them. At least she also supports adoption centers as well.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday September 27 2017, @08:36AM (1 child)
If your mom were to stop protesting and offer those women that go there to take care of their babies after birth, I could sympathise.
I've never heard of an abortion center protester that actually offered a viable solution. Where with viable I mean "right now you're choosing to not be involved in this life. How about you do exactly the same, but we pay for all medical expenses, you go through with birth, and then we'll take great care of the child, raise him/her in a loving, upper-class family, send him/her to the bestest schools, etc."
Otherwise, you're protesting people's life's decisions that you yourself aren't willing to carry the burden of. Why should you expect other people to carry those burdens if you wouldn't be willing to?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:01PM
This exactly. You want to protest about it. FINE, you take that burden then. Should almost just assign kids for adoption to the protesters and then charge them with child neglect if they don't take care of it properly.
These protesters just want the "feel goods" of judging someone elses actions and finding them lacking.
Remember Jesus will judge you on your actions, not your complaining about others actions. Put your money where your mouth is and take in a few more mouths to feed. Its what Jesus would do.