Georgia and Ohio’s new abortion laws will harm women, but Republicans only care about winning a political battle
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Though the GOP claims these laws honor the sanctity of life, they prove the party’s utter disregard for women already living.
An ectopic pregnancy can potentially kill you (and the embryo), so any delays in getting care — and medically accurate, evidence-based care — could put a pregnant person’s life on the line. Generally speaking, that involves removing the embryo from the fallopian tube in which it cannot gestate and which it would, left alone, cause to burst, killing the woman.
Which is why one would think the state of Ohio would have a vested interest in making sure its citizens could have access to such care.
But the new bill currently introduced by Republicans in the Ohio state house would preclude doctors from pursuing the standard of care in cases of life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, and ban private insurance companies from covering it by calling it an abortion and forcing them, instead, to cover a re-implantation procedure whether the woman wanted that or not.
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