Jan. 11, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| Just yesterday, the governor of Ohio, he signed a new bill into law which will criminally punish any doctor who doesn't offer medical care to babies who were born alive after an attempted abortion. | |
| That's right. | |
| This new law, it requires doctors in Ohio who perform abortions, and if they encounter a situation where they don't fully kill the baby in the abortion process, that once the baby is outside the mother's womb, they have to perform life-saving medical care on that baby, Or else, they will be held criminally liable for manslaughter. | |
| Now, this new law is officially called Ohio Senate Bill 157, although it is more colloquially known as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. | |
| And according to a statement from the office of Mike DeWine, Mike DeWine, by the way, is the Republican governor of Ohio, here's what he said this new bill does. | |
| The Born Alive Infant Protection Act creates protections for children who are born alive after a failed abortion attempt. | |
| It also expands abortion manslaughter to include failing to take measures Furthermore, this new law will also affect the actual facilities where these abortions take place. | |
| Here's again what the governor wrote on this part. | |
| The bill also creates new rules around ambulatory surgical facilities where abortions are attempting to be performed in order to ensure the health and safety of a child when born alive after an abortion. | |
| Furthermore, this new law will also require that the doctors who perform these procedures, they must report all circumstances where the babies survived the abortion attempt, and the doctors will be penalized if they fail to do so. | |
| Now, State Senator Terry Johnson, who is both a Republican as well as a sponsor of this new bill, he was quite encouraged when the governor signed it into law. | |
| Here's what he said in the statement. | |
| Thank you, Governor DeWine, for standing up for Ohio's newborns and protecting life at its most vulnerable stage. | |
| Every child, no matter the circumstances surrounding his or her birth, deserves our compassion and care. | |
| On the flip side, however, Planned Parenthood, which is of course America's largest provider of abortion procedures, they came out in opposition to a specific provision within this new law. | |
| What that particular provision does is that it makes sure that taxpayer dollars are not either directly or even indirectly funneled into abortions. | |
| And the provision ensures this by no longer allowing doctors to work for either state-funded hospitals or for state-funded medical schools if those same doctors separately work for an abortion contract. | |
| Essentially, what this means in practice is that any doctor who works at a state-funded medical center can no longer also work for an abortion provider. | |
| And Planned Parenthood, they objected to this provision. | |
| In fact, the director of the Ohio branch of Planned Parenthood, he released a statement saying this in part,"...this provision would disqualify all physicians who teach medical students or are affiliated with public hospitals and institutions from entering these contracts with abortion clinics." He further went on to say that this particular provision would make it harder for abortion providers to remain licensed and operational within the state of Ohio. | |
| Here's what he said. | |
| There is no medical justification for disallowing qualified, experienced physicians from agreeing to provide backup coverage for abortion providers under a variance. | |
| In fact, if the state was genuinely concerned for patient safety, such physicians would be ideal. | |
| Instead, this provision is only meant to make it more challenging for abortion providers to remain licensed and operational. | |
| However, even though Planned Parenthood is not necessarily keen on this new provision, there are other groups who actually are. | |
| For instance, the Center for Christian Virtue, which is the largest Christian public policy lobby in Ohio, they came out and suggested that this particular provision could, quote, potentially shut down two abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio and Women's Med Center in Dayton, who rely on state-funded doctors for their services. | |
| Which is, ironically, pretty much exactly what Planned Parenthood was saying as well. | |
| However, the Center for Christian Virtue, they continued their statement to actually say that this is a good thing. | |
| Here's what the statement continues by saying. | |
| Today, the state of Ohio has made a bold statement about where our values lie, with women, children, and families, not with the abortion industry which demeans and exploits them. | |
| The Born Alive Infant Protection Act, with all its life-affirming provisions, is a declaration that Ohio will fight back wherever we can to keep our beautiful state from becoming a dark place where the weak and helpless are discarded to serve the interests of the powerful. | |
| If you would like to read more about this new law out in Ohio, I will throw a link to both the PDF version of the law as well as an article about it into the description box below this video for you to check out. |
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