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Ohio is prohibiting doctors from performing abortions in cases where tests reveal the fetus has or likely has Down syndrome.
Republican Gov. John Kasich signed the legislation Friday and the law goes into effect in 90 days. "The governor is pro-life and supports policies that protect the sanctity of life," press secretary Jon Keeling tells CNN.
The law prohibits abortions after prenatal tests reveal Down syndrome in a fetus or if there's "any other reason to believe" the fetus has the genetic condition.
A person performing an abortion in such a case could face a fourth-degree felony charge, and physicians could lose their licenses. The woman seeking the abortion would not be held accountable, according to the legislation.
Sure Kasich may seem relatively reasonable when compared to the Donald Trump's of this world but he is still a Republican willing to tell women what they can do with their own bodies and condemning them to raising a child they may be ill equipped emotionally or financially to parent.
Taking care of a child with Down Syndrome, or any other challenging diagnosis, can bankrupt families, destroy marriages, and negatively impact the other children in the home.
This is simply NOT a decision that anybody other than the mother and father of the child should be involved in making.
The fact that John Kasich does not respect that is why nobody should respect his criticisms of the Republican party or Donald Trump.
As if you are really pro-choice. Gimme a break!
ReplyDeleteWhat's that supposed to mean?
DeleteHave you ever been pregnant, 2:11? I didn't think so. Gimme a break!
Delete2;11 are you a "man" with a tiny penis?
DeleteBecause Kasich will help the families he's forcing this decision upon? Of course not!
ReplyDeleteKasich as his cohorts will not be satisfied until all women are forced into what he perceives to be a woman's role - child bearer.
Kasich is a nasty piece of work, that is for sure. He will most likely try to run for president in 2020 and is using this bs to bolster support for that from the evangentials.
ReplyDeleteBy the way this scares the ever living crap out of me...
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/this-should-freak-everyone-out-the-arctic-will-never-be-frozen-again/
Every time Kasich's name comes up for president I continually knock it down.
ReplyDeleteKasich was Donald Trump light when he became governor of Ohio. Rude, loud and looking down on us all. He berated the highway patrol for ticketing him for speeding past an emergency vehicle when he was just a rich ex-congressman. He tried to break the state labor unions and was shocked when Ohioans squelched it. Then he realized he had to stop the screaming and play concerned Christian guy. It worked--for the gullible. And him supporting the Medicaid expansion made him seem reasonable. He isn't.
He has always tried to get up into women's uteruses. There are a hell of a lot fundies in the state. They sneak to the clinics early to get their daughter's abortions but they don't want anyone else to get them.
And what will the unintended consequences be when you force people to have a developmentally challenged child they cannot care for financially or emotionally . . . . I sadly see a lot of state intervention as far as children in foster homes, children being abused. I come from a family of social workers and it is scary as hell out there.
I am fucking sick of the Handmaid's Tale we are veering off into.
Until the governments decides to provide full financial coverage for medical, day to day living expenses, housing etc, from conception till the person die of old age, the government has no business forcing anyone to have a baby of any sort, especially one with special needs.
ReplyDeletethese laws have nothing what so ever with "babies" of ANY kind. they are written by men in order to control women. the "right to life movement " is led by MEN. insecure little men with little tiny penises. they don't even want women to have birth control of any kind. they want women under their thumbs as it was in the 1950's. so afraid that women can fuck and run and take no responsilbities just like men have always done all the way back to when there was just female and male. go to another state. rich women' of course, have always have had the option of a doctor who can be bribed or to fly over seas to get an obortion. these "caring" men, the second the baby is born, don't give a flying fuck. no welfare! no food stamps! no assitance of any kind! live on the street, whore! woman in their minds are virgins or whores. and of course they want to fuck us, behind their wive's back. some of these men, of course, want a 10 year old. its time to get the child raping men, drop them into a max prison, and tell the other prisoners what they did. a man i knew who went to prison for a violent crime towards other violent men. told me that a child rapist, on first day in prison, was asked what he had done." i had me a 9 year old girl and it was the best sex i ever had!" not one word. he was tipped up over the 3rd level fence onto the concrete floor. it wasn't investigated. it had been expected. i am pleased, for i am a me, too.i was 6. i keep, and know how to use, a very sharp sword. i am sorry. i have run on. but so many of us have been treated like garbage, and this is just the latest scirmage in the war on women. trump has done one thing right, he pissed us off enought that we are coming out and it isn't going to be pretty. thank you , Gryphen, for the airing out. you are one of the few men on the planet i have respect for. along with President Obama, Neil Gaiman and my landlord(i know. but he is worthy). happy new year to all and to all a good morning.
ReplyDeleteEvery republican must be tarred and feathered and chargeD with TREASON. They have enabled the devil himself. I don't give a ratz azz if dotard drump and his Russian skanks have a file on each of them. THEY CAN RESIGN TODAY OR FACE A MAJOR BACKLASH BEFORE THEIR AWAITING HELL...f ING TRAITOR LIARS.
ReplyDeleteThere are NO decent republicans today. ALL of them rode that elevator to hell with trump. ALL OF THEM. never trust a republican EVER.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gryphen. Exactly right. Kasich, Collins, Corker - all Republicans who will vote and act Republican. Only way to stop them is the voting booth.
ReplyDeleteThis Ohio Down Syndrome bill is a disgrace. But it's Republican dogma that the government can interfere in the lives of women and their families in the most profound way. Vote or applaud Republicans and this is what you get.
Palin of course has praised the bill, plastering photos of poor Trig, her right to life merit badge, on her ever feeble communications. The selfish, ignorant bitch.
Trig needs to be removed from that house. even Texas with his sister would be better. $arah uses him like a prop.
DeleteYep. just when I begin to think Kasich is sane, he does somethign totally misogynistic like this. Thankfully Richard Cordray is running for Ohio Gov.
ReplyDeleteRoe vs. Wade decision was made in 1973, you dumb ass, Kasich! Women have had the right to choose for 44 freaking years!!
ReplyDeleteYet elected politicians and idiots like Kasich are STILL trying to override a woman's right.
The ballot box is the answer to getting these neanderthals like Kasich out of office and any other politician that tries to override Roe vs Wade.
I live in Ohio - I absolutely agree. Just because he's able to look and talk like a sane person does not mean he is! As a lawyer, I feel certain this new law will fail when challenged. It's incredibly maddening that someone has to challenge something like this in the 2000 teens. This battle was fought and won a long time ago, but these a-holes keep trying to find "creative" ways around it.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It also drive me crazy when Se. Bob Corker suddenly became a ‘hero’ when he originally voted against the tax ‘cuts.’ But as par the course, old millionaire Bob got on board. So much for his hero status. He never ever deserved any praise.
ReplyDeleteNative Ohioan here. Kasich has fooled a LOT OF people here in the Buckeye State with his "awe, shucks" downhome country boy act. He's a theocrat/autocrat through-and through and I sincerely hope that this shameful bill (which will result in abandoned and abused - if not worse - babies, fails *soon*.
ReplyDeleteThis new law is beyond disturbing. Why do Republicans rejoice in creating more suffering?
ReplyDeleteSmall sample size, but the three families I know who have a Down syndrome child have experienced severe depression, financial problems, off-the-charts stress and heart-wrenching emotional pain.
These rabid anti-abortionists see only an adorable Down syndrome baby, not the child with health problems, the child that other children mock or shun, the adult who is taken advantage of, who is constantly frustrated when not understood by others, who is extremely vulnerable later in life when parents have died, etc.
Yes, there are mild cases who make great poster children for the anti-choice, but there are also many who suffer, cause suffering in others, and live a nightmare.
Just because he is the “least worst” Republican doesn’t make him acceptable.
ReplyDeleteBeing the least of the worst is not something to aspire to. In fact, it’s kinda still insulting.
It’s just that Republicans don’t seem to have any shame when it comes to cruelty to the less fortunate or different or control of those weaker or less fortunate or getting their own way in any way at all, including sex.
I think they would have *loved* Oliver Cromwell.
Is the state of Ohio planning on funding these families to support these children, are they going to build giant "orphanages" to house unwanted children left on the door step of police stations and hospitals? Maybe Kasich can raise them, by the way what is he doing about funding for special education in Ohio?
ReplyDeleteI am sure this law is already being challenged in the courts
Kasich is and always has been a teabag-style-Koch-funded Republican. Nothing worthwhile about him. He's just trying to sound better than Trump and the current crop of GOP members of Congress.
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It doesn't take a whole lot to sound better than trump,a 5th grade vocabulary is already an improvement.
DeleteIf I were a woman forced to carry a child for any reason, upon birth I would be signing that baby over to the government. They wanted it to be born so badly? They can damned well take care of it. Good luck finding enough families to raise all of the Downs Syndrome and other medically challenged, fragile children. Foster payments never cover the actual cost of raising a child. And you can be damned sure all these Talibangelicals demanding all of these babies be born are not the ones stepping forward to foster and adopt. Oh, no. It's just more NIMBY, only it's let someone else raise that baby we forced into the world.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they should go so far as to name John Kasich as the father on the birth certificate.
I have a daughter with DS and I find this law to be a despicable back-door way to control women. Pro life my ass, this is pro birth and THEN what? What about families who don't have the resources or support (or DESIRE, btw, reasons don't matter here, not our business via Roe v Wade, OMG!) to raise a child with special needs? Again, though, this can't be constitutional, can it? We have the RIGHT TO CHOOSE. THAT is the law. This is some serious BS and yes, as an Ohioan I will admit that even I have fallen for him as a reasonable republican. This just made it impossible for me to EVER see him that way again. I don't agree with him on a lot of things, education rings a bell - but I really didn't think he'd sign this bill!
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