Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion Due to Down Syndrome Diagnosis (the gynoticians strike again!)

[niyad]

(naturally, the woman-hating gestational slavers who are sponsoring this bs are addding a rider that the woman and the down syndrome fetus/child, will be completely supported, medically, financially, etc., until that child's death, yes?)


Ohio Bill Would Ban Abortion Due to Down Syndrome Diagnosis


In the latest attempt to restrict abortion access, legislators in Ohio are proposing a bill that would prohibit doctors from performing an abortion because of a fetal diagnosis of Down Syndrome.


(kasich, the woman-hating gestational slaver)


The measure, HB 135, would make it a felony to perform or induce an abortion for a pregnant person who is seeking an abortion because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome in the fetus.

Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich has supported various anti-abortion legislation since his election in 2010. Kasich signed a law requiring a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound, and has included limitations on abortion providers’ ability to obtain transfer agreements with nearby hospitals. Kasich also signed provisions making it more difficult for family planning centers to receive funding for preventative care, such as screening for cancer or STIs.

Democratic lawmakers have asked how the state would enforce such a ban, and why decisions based on one medical condition are banned by the state but not others. “This legislation would remove a choice from a woman who may be considering terminating a pregnancy due to a medical situation,” said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. “Women should be able to make these big decisions in their lives without political interference,” Copeland continued.

Ohio legislature is expected to vote on this measure this fall, where it will likely pass as the National Right to Life Committee makes up more than two thirds of both Ohio houses. Such a ban on abortion would likely be found to be in violation of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which protects a woman’s right to have an abortion before fetal viability.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/08/24/ohio-bill-would-ban-abortion-due-to-down-syndrome-diagnosis/

[dflprincess]

1. And I suppose these fools will also be passing legislation

that will help parents fund the help they will need to see their children reach their full potential. Not to mention money for the medical care Down kids often need and the groups homes some of the kids will need as adults when their parents can no longer provide care.

[niyad]

4. good heavens, what ARE you smoking?

[dflprincess]

9. Did I need the sarcasm tag (I know you couldn't have taken me seriously)

[niyad]

10. no, you didn't. I just couldn't resist!

[dflprincess]

12. I suspected as much

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Interesting defence of abortion by leading evolutionist, P Z Meyer:

The standard bullying tactics of waving bloody fetuses might cow the squeamish, but I’m a biologist. I’ve guillotined rats. I’ve held eyeballs in my hand and peeled them apart with a pair of scissors. I’ve used a wet-vac to clean up a lake of half-clotted blood from an exsanguinated dog. I’ve opened bodies and watched the intestines do their slow writhing dance, I’ve been elbow deep in blood, I’ve split open cats and stabbed them in the heart with a perfusion needle. I’ve extracted the brains of mice…with a pair of pliers. I’ve scooped brains out of buckets, I’ve counted dendrites in slices cut from the brains of dead babies.

You want to make me back down by trying to inspire revulsion with dead baby pictures? I look at them unflinchingly and see meat. And meat does not frighten me.’

Wonder if he'd use a foetus for live bait, deep-sea fishing.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Rec for exposure. nt

[niyad]

5. thank you!!

[awoke_in_2003]

6. You are welcome...

I wish my home state wasn't going full tilt nutter

[niyad]

8. currently mine is about 90% nutter.

[niyad]

7. . . .

[niyad]

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[niyad]

13. . . .

[Syzygy321]

14. This can't possibly pass.

It still disgusts me.

[tblue37]

15. It probably *will* pass. Eventually it would probably get struck down in court, but

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RWers regularly waste millions upon millions of taxpayer funds on BS that won't stand--like repealing Obamacare, investigating Benghazi (again!), and other such nonsense--while not even mentioning anything they should be trying to deal with.

They don't care. All they care about is posturing for the rubes, branding themselves to ensure their own political future or, at the very least, their lucrative future on the RW talk circuit and on RW media: TV and radio, but also books that become pseudo best sellers when they are purchased in bulk by RW groups. Some will also be supported with grants from RW think tanks, and regularly publish in and on RW magazines and websites.

All these moves are just for branding.

[niyad]

16. sadly, you are quite correct.