Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges https://t.co/zI9b2NJQS8
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 29, 2019
It's hard at times for me to fathom the kind of mind that meditates on how to be pointlessly cruel to pregnant people and call it "pro-life". Ectopic pregnancies are depressingly common (about one out of a hundred pregnancies) and must be terminated to avoid threatening the life of the mother. They can occur for no reason, but there is a correlation with some fertility treatments and with women who have conditions like PID and endometriosis that can impair fertility. There is no surgical way yet devised to perform the kind of transplant that this bill suggests. The bill goes a step beyond other bills that criminalize miscarriage or that are based on pure falsehood, like the myth of "abortion reversal". This bill would make doctors engage in a kind of human experimentation, and their patients into the experiments.
It doesn't seem likely to me that this bill was conceived of by people unaware that it is cruel and absurd, but by people with a vicious attitude towards reproductive care. It's intended to be punitive towards pregnant people and the doctors who tend to them. And I have no doubt the makers of this bill believe they have only the most moral intentions--to create an atmosphere of ignorance and fear regarding a part of human sexuality, in accordance with the dictates of religion.
I am disgusted.
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