Meanwhile in Gilead
by digby
Don't blame Trump for this one. (Well, actually you can blame him for making this sort of thing so acutely dangerous with his appointment of hundreds of brain dead wingnut to the federal courts, including the Supremes):
A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy” into a woman’s uterus – a procedure that does not exist in medical science – or face charges of “abortion murder”.
This is the second time practising obstetricians and gynecologists have tried to tell the Ohio legislators that the idea is currently medically impossible.
The move comes amid a wave of increasingly severe anti-abortion bills introduced across much of the country as conservative Republican politicians seek to ban abortion and force a legal showdown on abortion with the supreme court.
Ohio’s move on ectopic pregnancies – where an embryo implants on the mother’s fallopian tube rather than her uterus rendering the pregnancy unviable – is one of the most extreme bills to date.
“I don’t believe I’m typing this again but, that’s impossible,” wrote Ohio obstetrician and gynecologist Dr David Hackney on Twitter. “We’ll all be going to jail,” he said.
An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition, which can kill a woman if the embryonic tissue grows unchecked.
Basically, the idea is that if a doctor doesn't attempt an impossible medical procedure rather than save a woman's life the woman must die and he must go to jail.
There's more:
In addition to ordering doctors to do the impossible or face criminal charges, House Bill 413 bans abortion outright and defines a fertilized egg as an “unborn child”.
It also appears to punish doctors, women and children as young as 13 with “abortion murder” if they “perform or have an abortion”. This crime is punishable by life in prison.
Another new crime, “aggravated abortion murder”, is punishable by death, according to the bill.
At least they're now making it clear that they want to kill or imprison women for having abortions. It's clarifying.
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