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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:54AM   Printer-friendly

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/09/24/ohio-bill-would-bar-abortion-when-prenatal-test-is-positive-for-down-syndrome/

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


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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:07AM (4 children)

    by dry (223) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:07AM (#573596) Journal

    Muslims also worship Jesus, considering him the second greatest prophet.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:14PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:14PM (#573774) Journal

    For certain values of "worship".

    For informational purposes: Muslims deny that Jesus is God, and that Jesus ever died, thus denying Jesus' resurrection. Consequently Christians cannot accept the faith of Islam. The Bible declares that Jesus is the one and only way to God, and there is no other way. So thus there is an incompatibility between Christianity and all other religions. Except for 'forms' of Christianity that deny the Bible. Manifestation is generally persecution vs compromise, health and wealth, etc.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:49PM (2 children)

      by dry (223) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:49PM (#573823) Journal

      At one point there was various Christian sects that didn't believe Christ was God either, just that they mostly got wiped out in the first millennium.