Ohio Abortion Providers Now Required to Do Fetal Test That Doesn't Exist

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Ohio Abortion Providers Now Required to Do Fetal Test That Doesn't Exist

http://jezebel.com/ohio-abortion-providers-now-required-to-do-fetal-test-t-1689141948

In 2013, the state enacted a requirement that a person seeking an abortion be forced to listen to the fetus' heartbeat. The same year, the governor cut $1.4 million in family planning funding. By August of 2014, four of the state's abortion clinics had closed. Now, NPR reports, that number is up to eight. Only eight facilities remain. All ambulatory surgical centers in Ohio (they perform minor surgical procedures, like an first-trimester abortion) are required to have "transfer agreements" with hospitals so that patients can be taken there if the surgery results in unexpected complications. But a newish law mandates that abortion clinics—and only abortion clinics—can't make those transfer agreements with public hospitals, making it that much harder for them to operate legally.

Ohio also implemented a requirement that abortion providers test for viability at 20 weeks. But such a test doesn't exist. It's not a real thing. From NPR:

Then there's the state's confusing requirement for a fetal viability test after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Fetuses are generally not considered viable until several weeks later. But Dr. Lisa Perriera, an OB-GYN at Preterm, says there is no such test.

"The laws say that we have to do some kind of testing," she says. "They don't tell us what kind of tests to do, nor do those tests even really mean anything. It's just another hoop to jump through."

[Warpy]

2. Legislators should be legally barred from trying to practice medicine

The only thing they should legislate is general licensing and safety inspection by the relevant agencies like JCAHO.

Once medically ignorant men try to set practice standards, everything is going to fall apart.

The state supreme court needs to slap them down HARD, NOW.

Idiots.

This stupid law won't stand, of course, the legislators are idiots who need to be told to butt out.

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3. +1, n/t

[cui bono]

6. Especially when they want women to swallow cameras in order to have a gynecological

exam.

It's fucking scary.

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8. IKR? n/t

[marym625]

4. I quit

I just quit. How do you fight complete idiocy backed by enough money to run a small country?

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5. They're relentless.

I hate these anti-choice assholes. I really do.

[marym625]

7. Right there with you

Hate.

[niyad]

9. they want us to quit, to give up in hopeless despair and overwhelming tiredness. I know how

you feel, it is perfectly understandable.

hey, assholes, some of us are just too damned mean and angry to give you what you want.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Fucking freaks

My second daughter lives in Ohio now. This makes it even more personal.